Clinically discriminating checklists versus thoroughness checklists: Improving the validity of performance test scores

Academic Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1057-1062

  Yudkowsky, Rachel ^a   Park, Yoon Soo ^a   Riddle, Janet ^a   Palladino, Catherine ^a   Bordage, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84903817236     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000235     Document Type: Article

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