Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence E-Book

Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence E-Book

Eric S. Holmboe, Steven James Durning, Richard E. Hawkins

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323448949
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Medicina clinica

Designed to help medical educators implement better assessment methods, tools, and models directly into training programs, Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence, 2nd Edition, by Drs. Eric S. Holmboe, Steven J. Durning, and Richard E. Hawkins, is a hands-on, authoritative guide to outcomes-based assessment in clinical education. National and international experts present an organized, multifaceted approach and a diverse combination of methods to help you perform effective assessments. This thoroughly revised edition is a valuable resource for developing, implementing, and sustaining effective systems for evaluating clinical competence in medical school, residency, and fellowship programs.- Each chapter provides practical suggestions and assessment models that can be implemented directly into training programs, tools that can be used to measure clinical performance, overviews of key educational theories, and strengths and weaknesses of every method.- Guidelines that apply across the medical education spectrum allow you to implement the book's methods in any educational situation.- New chapters on high-quality assessment of clinical reasoning and assessment of procedural competence, as well as a new chapter on practical approaches to feedback.- Reorganized for ease of use, with expanded coverage of Milestones/Entrustable Professional Assessments (EPAs), cognitive assessment techniques, work-based procedural assessments, and frameworks.- The expert editorial team, renowned leaders in assessment, is joined by global leader in medical education and clinical reasoning, Dr. Steven Durning.- New Expert Consult material includes videos of medical interviewing scenarios and downloadable assessment tools.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Dedication
• 1. Assessment Challenges in the Era of Outcomes-Based Education
• 2. Issues of Validity and Reliability for Assessments in Medical Education
• 3. Evaluation Frameworks, Forms, and Global Rating Scales
• 4. Direct Observation
• 5. Direct Observation: Standardized Patients
• 6. Using Written Examinations to Assess Medical Knowledge and Its Application
• 7. Assessing Clinical Reasoning in the Workplace
• 8. Workplace-Based Assessment of Procedural Skills
• 9. Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice
• 10. Clinical Practice Review
• 11. Multisource Feedback
• 12. Simulation-Based Assessment
• 13. Feedback and Coaching in Clinical Teaching and Learning
• 14. Portfolios
• 15. The Learner With a Problem or the Problem Learner? Working With Dyscompetent Learners
• 16. Program Evaluation
• Index