ISBN:
9780443112263
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
03-25-2024
Page Count:
464
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$69.99
Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence, 3rd Edition
by Eric S. Holmboe, MD, MACP, FRCP and Steven James Durning, MD, PhD, MACP
Paperback
ISBN:
9780443112263
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
03-25-2024
Page Count:
464
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$69.99
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- Helps medical educators and administrators answer complex, ongoing, and critical questions in today’s changing medical education system: Is this undergraduate or postgraduate medical student prepared and able to move to the next level of training? To be a competent and trusted physician?
- Provides practical suggestions and assessment approaches that can be implemented immediately in your training program, tools that can be used to assess and measure clinical performance, overviews of key educational theories, and strengths and weaknesses of every method.
- Covers assessment techniques, frameworks, high-quality assessment of clinical reasoning and procedural competence, psychometrics, and practical approaches to feedback.
- Includes expanded coverage of fast-moving areas where concepts now have solid research and data that support practical ways to connect judgments of ability to outcomes—including work-based assessments, clinical competency committees, milestones and entrustable professional assessments (EPAs), and direct observation.
- Offers examples of assessment instruments along with suggestions on how you can apply these methods and instruments in your own setting, as well as guidelines that apply across the medical education spectrum.
- Includes online access to videos of medical interviewing scenarios and more, downloadable assessment tools, and detailed faculty guidelines.
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
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1 Assessment in the Era of Outcomes-Based Education
2 Issues of Validity and Reliability for Assessments in Medical Education
3 Programmatic Assessment Using Systems Thinking
4 Evaluation Frameworks, Assessment Forms, and Rating Scales
5 Direct Observation
6 Standardized Patients
7 Assessing Clinical Reasoning In Vitro (NonWorkplace Assessment)
8 Assessing Clinical Reasoning in the Workplace
9 Workplace-Based Assessment of Procedural Skills
10 Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice
11 Clinical Performance Measures and Practice Review
12 Multisource Feedback
13 Simulation Overview
14 Feedback and Coaching
15 Portfolios
16 Group Process in Assessment
17 A Programmatic Approach to Identifying and Supporting the Struggling Learner
18 Program Evaluation
Appendix
Index