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Patient Care: Assessment Approaches

What is Assessed? How is it Assessed?
clinical skills
(American Board of Internal Medicine Patient Assessment, Physician Peer Assessment and Self Assessment)
rating forms are completed by patients, physician peers, and self.
more information (Patient Assessment Form, Physician Peer Assessment Form)
clinical skills
(Clinical Work Sampling)
rating forms are completed by physician supervisors, nurses, and patients.
more information
clinical skills
(Davis Observation Code)
a videotape of a live physician-patient encounter is coded.
more information
clinical skills
(Encounter Cards)
a rating form with free form component, all on a pocket-sized card, is completed by physician supervisors.
more information
clinical skills
(Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise)
a rating form is completed by physician supervisors during or immediately after direct observation of a resident-patient encounter.
more information
technical skills
(Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills-OSATS
a) Global Scale

b) Sample Checklist)
rating forms and checklists are completed by physician supervisors during or immediately after direct observation of residents at a number of bench model stations.
more information
clinical skills
(Objective Structured Clinical Examination OSCE-Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
checklists and rating forms are completed by physicians and standardized patients (SPs), respectively, during or immediately following direct observation of residents at a number of stations.
more information
technical skills
(Operative Outcomes)
task completion times are recorded and the quality of operative products are assessed using a rating form completed by physician supervisors.
more information
clinical skills
(Patient Assessment and Management Examination)
checklists and rating forms are completed by physicians and SPs during or immediately following direct observation of residents at a number of multi-component stations.
more information
clinical skills
(Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners Examination)
videotapes of physician-patient encounters are assessed using a rating form completed by trained examiners.
more information

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