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The extent to which recent (1978–1981) graduates of one medical school received low ratings on 10 items concerning noncognitive aspects of professional behavior is presented and related to ratings on items dealing with knowledge, data-gathering skills, and clinical judgment. Overall, only 3 percent of the graduates had low ratings on the noncognitive items. Despite high correlations among ratings in the four areas of professional competence (knowledge, data-gathering, clinical judgment, and professional attitudes), 40 percent of the graduates with low ratings on noncognitive items had high ratings in at least two of the areas. The validity of the ratings is tested by relating them to the willingness of residency supervisors to offer the graduates further postgraduate training and to clinical ratings received in the third year of medical school. Substantial relationships are shown both with the residency offer and medical school ratings for graduates with high and low ratings.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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The component parts and development of a comprehensive system to evaluate and improve teaching in a school of medicine are described by the author in this paper. This system integrates quantitative measures of teaching (student/resident ratings of classroom and clinical teaching), descriptive documentation (faculty teaching load, innovations, and research on teaching), and qualitative judgments (peer review) on the full spectrum of instruction in medicine. Medical school policies have standardized evaluation criteria, instrumentation, and procedures while granting departments flexibility in conducting peer review. The results of two studies indicate that the evaluation system described here has had a positive impact both on the improvement of teaching and on academic promotions.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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Medical students were assessed by questionnaire in their third and fourth years regarding attitudes about sex role, medical school, and career plans and in the third year about fear of success. Nine percent of each sex were judged to fear success. Stereotypical responses were reported by the students. Males, anticipating that they would work more than 60 hours per week, looked forward to academic careers, while females more often desired the sharing of financial and child care responsibilities with spouses. Attitudes toward chores were egalitarian, but in reality women performed most routine household activities. Both sexes agreed upon the characteristics that are necessary to be a good student as well as to succeed in later life. Women were more inclined toward artistic and domestic interests and helping others, while men were more interested in scientific investigation, athletics, and adventure. The implications of these similarities and differences for the students' future careers are discussed.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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A series of six modular examinations, each representing a substance abuse problem, were developed by a National Institute on Drug Abuse task force working with consultants from the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Each examination contained a patient management problem and multiple-choice questions. The examinations were administered to 629 third- and fourth-year U.S. medical students, and the results indicated that students performed less well in this area than on the traditional content of the NBME examinations. Students performed better on items related to pharmacologic effects of drugs of abuse, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the treatment of delirium tremens. Students did less well on items related to metabolic and biochemical areas; emergency room treatment of drug-overdosed, comatose patients; and legal issues in substance abuse. As a result of these data, a syllabus explaining each item in the available modules was developed, score-reporting to participating schools was modified, and the modules were shortened. Implications for medical education in substance abuse are discussed.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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The main purposes of this study were to estimate the reliability of oral examinations administered to medical students during a clinical clerkship and to improve the reliability of this evaluation technique. In the first part of the study, the reliability of oral examinations as traditionally administered was estimated. The average intraclass reliability coefficient for these examinations was .48. Cassette recordings of these oral examinations were also rated by the faculty members. The average intraclass reliability coefficient of the ratings of the taped performances was .82. In the second part of the study, the reliability of oral examinations was investigated with the raters using a newly developed evaluation form. The average intraclass reliability of the oral examination using the evaluation form was .67, a noticeable increase over the .48 obtained without the form. The average intraclass reliability of ratings made from tape recordings of these oral examinations was .62.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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A total of 293 medical students, residents, and physicians were surveyed concerning their everyday information needs and the resources used to address these needs. The results of this study were used to identify goals of information-searching education for medical students. The participants' heavy reliance on their personal libraries, their basing their first choice of resource on physical convenience, and their need to obtain information quickly document the need to educate students in organizing and maintaining personal libraries and reprint files. In this study, the authors found that familiarity with a resource is often the basis of the choice of the resource and identified different types of information needs. These results revealed the need to educate medical students to be able to use the characteristics of the information problem to tailor information-search strategy to retrieve information expeditiously from a variety of resources outside the personal library.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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Student ratings of teaching, though controversial, demonstrate high reliability and acceptable validity. The study on which this article is based attempted to define the aspects of the family medicine preceptor and his practice which are significantly associated with the medical student's assessment of the preceptor's teaching ability. Questionnaires were sent to preceptors at the University of Western Ontario, and their responses were compared with student ratings by means of t-tests, correlation coefficients, and multiple regression. Higher teaching ability ratings were given to preceptors in group practice and nonurban practice and to those delegating more responsibility to students and using medication lists. Multiple-regression analyses using questionnaire data plus teaching ability subscores accounted for 88.1 percent of variance in student assessments of their clinical teachers. Suggestions for selection of preceptors are presented, together with proposals for further research into clinical teaching by family practice preceptors.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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Using patient-simulators is an effective and inexpensive approach for teaching telephone communication skills to health professionals. An audiotaped simulation program has been carried out with the residents of the Family Practice Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been implemented in several other areas, including pediatrics, psychiatry, nursing, and a third-year elective clerkship in family medicine.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

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No abstract available.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

No abstract available.

ISSN:0022-2577    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1983

数据来源: OVID