Assessment of patient communication skills during OSCE: Examining effectiveness of a training program in minimizing inter-grader variability

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 472-477

  Schwartzman, Emmanuelle ^a   Hsu, Donald I ^a   Law, Anandi V ^a   Chung, Eunice P ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication skills; Communication training; Communications rubric; Grading communication skills; Inter grader variability; Objective grading; OSCE

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PHARMACY; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FACULTY PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAM; OUTCOME OF EDUCATION; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PHARMACY STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT ATTITUDE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, PHARMACY; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS, PHARMACY;

EID: 79958767811     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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