A primer on standards setting as it applies to surgical education and credentialing

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2631-2637

  Cendan, Juan ^a   Wier, Daryl ^b   Behrns, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical assessment; Credentialing; High stakes assessment; Performance metrics; Skill assessment; Standard setting

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ANGOFF METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HOFSTEE METHOD; HUMAN; NORM REFERENCING; PATIENT SAFETY; PEER REVIEW; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHOMETRY; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TRAINING; VALIDITY;

EID: 84884905405     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-012-2771-9     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Southgate L, Hays RB, Norcini J, Mulholland H, Ayers B, Woolliscroft J, Cusimano M, McAvoy P, Ainsworth M, Haist S, Campbell M (2001) Setting performance standards for medical practice: a theoretical framework. Med Educ 35:474-481
2. Darzi A, Smith S, Taffinder N (1999) Assessing operative skill needs to become more objective. BMJ 318:887-888
3. Taffinder N, Sutton C, Fishwick RJ, McManus IC, Darzi A (1998) Validation of virtual reality to teach and assess psychomotor skills in laparoscopic surgery: results from randomised controlled studies using the MIST VR laparoscopic simulator. Stud Health Technol Inf 50:124-130
4. van Hove PD, Tuijthof GJ, Verdaasdonk EG, Stassen LP, Dankelman J (2010) Objective assessment of technical surgical skills. Br J Surg 97:972-987
5. Searle J (2000) Defining competence - the role of standard setting. Med Educ 34:363-366
6. Marriott J, Purdie H, Crossley J, Beard JD (2011) Evaluation of procedure-based assessment for assessing trainees' skills in the operating theatre. Br J Surg 98:450-457
7. Crossley J, Marriott J, Purdie H, Beard JD (2011) Prospective observataional study to evaluate NOTSS (non-technical skills for surgeons) for assessing trainees' non-technical performance in the operating theatre. Br J Surg 98:1010-1020
8. Brennan (1964) Jacobellis v Ohio. Tomson-Reuters. http://caselaw.lp. findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=378&invol=184
9. Zieky M (ed) (2001) So much has changed: how the setting of cutscores has evolved since the 1980s. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah
10. Hambleton RK, Brennan RL, Brown W, Dodd B, Forsyth RA, Mehrens WA, Nellhaus J, Reckase M, Rindone D, van der Linden WJ, Zwick R (2000) A response to "Setting reasonable and useful performance standards in the National Academy of Sciences' Grading the Nation's Report Card". Educ Measure Issues Pract 19(2):5-13
11. Downing SM, Tekian A, Yudkowsky R (2006) Procedures for establishing defensible absolute passing scores on performance examinations in health professions education. Teach Learn Med 18(1):50-57
12. Cusimano M (1996) Standard setting in medical education. Acad Med 71(10):S112-S120
13. Cusimano MD, Rothman AI (2003) The effect of incorporating normative data into a criterion-referenced standard setting in medical education. Acad Med 78(10):S88-S90
14. Hofstee W (1983) The case for compromise in educational selection and grading. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
15. DeGruijter D (1985) Compromise models for establishing examination standards. J Educ Measure 22:263-269
16. Gormley G (2011) Summative OSCEs in undergraduate medical education. Ulster Med J 80(3):127-132
17. von Websky MW, Vitz M, Raptis DA, Rosenthal R, Clavien PA, Hahnloser D (2012) Basic laparoscopic training using the Simbionix LAP Mentor: setting the standards in the novice group. J Surg Educ 69(4):459-467