The Readiness for Clerkship Survey: Can self-assessment data be used to evaluate program effectiveness?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1355-1360

  Peterson, Linda N ^a,b   Eva, Kevin W ^a,b   Rusticus, Shayna A ^b   Lovato, Chris Y ^b,c  

^a Department of Cellular Physiological Sciences ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Centre for Health Services and Policy Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85027954103     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182676c76     Document Type: Article

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