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Student Evaluation

  Student Evaluation Evaluating Clinical Performance

Overviews of Clinical Evaluation. Covers the concepts, methods and issues underlying assessment in medical, dental, nursing and allied health education. Compares clinical competence with clinical performance and identifiies control problems in the naturalistic/ clinical setting. Recommends that blueprinting, validity and reliability assessment, and standard setting be applied in developing clinical competence measures and outlines key considerations applicable to both formative and summative evaluations. Describes key considerations in selecting both observational and written strategies for assessing clinical competence.17 links

Evaluating Clinical Performance and Competence. Reviews the need for deliberate planning in clinical evaluation and identifying what to evaluate; includes suggestions on giving feedback and the characteristics of efective formative and summative evaluation. Discusses common pitfalls in evaluation and outlines practical systems for effective evaluation. Emphasizes the importance of good documentation. 8 links

Representative Clinical Assessment Tools. Provides links to dozens of examples of specific instruments being used to assess clinical competency in medicine (undergraduate and residency), nursing and selected allied health professions. Information regarding the technical, psychometric and practical characteristics of some tools is is provided. 15 links
Structured Medline Searches on Clinical Competency Evaluation. Run dynamic searches of the Medline database via the PubMed interface on Evaluating Clinical Competence in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy and Alied Health, including review articles. 6 links
Structured Medline Searches on the Objective Structure Clinical Exam (OSCE). Run dynamic searches of the Medline database via the PubMed interface on the use of the OSCE in Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing. Includes review articles and studies on the validity and reliabiity of the OSCE. 6 links
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