The Professionalism Assessment of Clinical Teachers (PACT): The reliability and validity of a novel tool to evaluate professional and clinical teaching behaviors

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 99-113

  Young, Meredith E ^a   Cruess, Sylvia R ^a   Cruess, Richard L ^a   Steinert, Yvonne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Clinical teaching; Faculty development; Hidden curriculum; Professionalism; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CLINICAL EDUCATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CANADA; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAFF DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84893919905     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-013-9466-4     Document Type: Article

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