Summative assessment of 5 th year medical students clinical reasoning by script concordance test: Requirements and challenges

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Duggan, Paul ^a   Charlin, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84860863715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-29     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Charlin B, Tardif J, Boshuizen H: Scripts and Medical Diagnostic Knowledge: Theory and Applications for Clinical Reasoning Instruction and Research. Acad Med 2000, 75(2):182-190. (Pubitemid 30111550)
2. Schmidt HG, Norman GR, Boshuizen HPA: A cognitive perspective on medical expertise: theory and implications. Acad Med 1990, 65:611-621. (Pubitemid 20367295)
3. Charlin B, Roy L, Brailovsky C, Goulet F, van der Vleuten C: The Script Concordance test: a tool to assess the reflective clinician. Teach Learn Med 2000, 12(4):189-199.
4. Lubarsky S, Charlin B, Cook DA, Chalk C, van der Vleuten CPM: Script Concordance Method: A Review of Published Validity Evidence. Med Educ 2011, 45:329-338.
5. Brazeau-Lamontagne L, Charlin B, Gagnon R, Samson L, Van Der Vleuten C: Measurement of perception and interpretation skills during radiology training: utility of the script concordance approach. Med Teach 2004, 26(4):326-332. (Pubitemid 38961358)
6. Lubarsky S, Chalk C, Kazitani D, Gagnon R, Charlin B: The script concordance test: a new tool and assessing clinical judgment in neurology. Can J Neurol Sci 2009, 36:326-331.
7. Lambert C, Gagnon R, Nguyen D, Charlin B: The script concordance test in radiation oncology: validation study of a new tool to assess clinical reasoning. Radiat Oncol 2009, 4:7.
8. Meterissian S, Zabolotny B, Gagnon R, Charlin B: Is the script concordance test a valid instrument for assessment of intraoperative decision-making skills? Am J Surg 2007, 193(2):248-251. (Pubitemid 46107929)
9. Carrière B, Gagnon R, Charlin B, Downing S, Bordage G: Assessing clinical reasoning in pediatric emergency medicine: validity evidence for a Script Concordance Test. Ann Emerg Med 2009, 53(5):647-652.
10. Charlin B, van der Vleuten C: Standardized assessment in contexts of uncertainty: The script concordance approach. Eval Health Prof 2004, 27(3):304-319. (Pubitemid 39050608)
11. Gagnon R, Charlin B, Coletti M, Sauve E, van der Vleuten C: Assessment in the context of uncertainty: how many members are needed on the panel of reference of a script concordance test? Med Educ 2005, 39:284-291. (Pubitemid 40388955)
12. Collard A, Gelaes S, Vanbelle S, Bredart S, Defraigne J, Boniver J, Bourguignon J: Reasoning versus knowledge retention and ascertainment throughout a problem-based learning curriculum. Med Educ 2009, 43:854-865.
13. Palmer E, Duggan P, Devitt P, Russell R: The Modified Essay Question - its exit from the exit examination? Med Teach 2010, 32(7):e300-e307.
14. Duggan P: Development of a Script Concordance Test using an electronic voting system. Ergo 2007, 1:35-41.
15. Cizek GJ, Bunch MB: Standard setting. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications; 2007. chapter 1.
16. Boursicot K, Roberts T, Pell G: Standard Setting for Clinical Competence at Graduation from Medical School: A Comparison of Passing Scores Across Five Medical Schools. Adv Heal Sci Educ 2006, 11:173-183. (Pubitemid 43806866)
17. Shepard L: Standard setting issues and methods. Appl Psychol Meas 1980, 4(4):447-467.
18. Charlin B, Gagnon R, Lubarsky S, Lambert C, Meterissian S, Chalk C, Goudreau J, van der Vleuten C: Assessment in the context of uncertainty using the script concordance test: More meaning for scores. Teach Learn Med 2010, 22(3):180-186.
19. Collard A, Gelaes S, Vanbelle S, Bredart S, Defraigne J-O, Boniver J, Bourguignon J-P: Reasoning versus knowledge retention and ascertainment throughout a problem-based learning curriculum. Med Educ 2009, 43:854-865.