Entrustability Scales: Outlining Their Usefulness for Competency-Based Clinical Assessment

Academic Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 186-190

  Rekman, Janelle ^a   Gofton, Wade ^a   Dudek, Nancy ^a   Gofton, Tyson ^b   Hamstra, Stanley J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84955601233     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001045     Document Type: Review

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