Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
Offering a multifaceted, practical approach to the complex topic of clinical assessment, Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence, 3rd Edition, is designed to help medical educators employ better assessment methods, tools, and models directly into their training programs. World-renowned editors and expert contributing authors provide hands-on, authoritative guidance on outcomes-based assessment in clinical education, presenting a well-organized, diverse combination of methods you can implement right away. This thoroughly revised edition is a valuable resource for developing, implementing, and sustaining effective systems for assessing clinical competence in medical school, residency, and fellowship programs.
Offering a multifaceted, practical approach to the complex topic of clinical assessment, Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence, 3rd Edition, is designed to help medical educators employ better assessment methods, tools, and models directly into their training programs. World-renowned editors and expert contributing authors provide hands-on, authoritative guidance on outcomes-based assessment in clinical education, presenting a well-organized, diverse combination of methods you can implement right away. This thoroughly revised edition is a valuable resource for developing, implementing, and sustaining effective systems for assessing clinical competence in medical school, residency, and fellowship programs.
Key Features
- 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
Author Information
| ISBN Number | 9780443381461 |
|---|---|
| Main Author | By Eric S. Holmboe, MD, MACP, FRCP and Steven James Durning, MD, PhD, MACP |
| Copyright Year | 2025 |
| Edition Number | 3 |
| Format | eBook |
| Trim | Other |
| Imprint | Elsevier |
| Page Count | 374 |
| Publication Date | 1 Mar 2024 |
| Stock Status | IN STOCK |


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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
"The book provides a state-of-the-art guide to competency-based outcomes assessment programs in the health professions. If followed, this guide will help any medical educator in the health professions identify better ways to implement assessment methods and measurement tools. What is also important about this book is that it provides conceptual models and popular approaches to assessment. The authors are practitioners who themselves have clearly struggled with improving and implementing effective measures of performance in the health professions and offer the best evidence from the literature as well as from their experience, resulting in this authoritative, excellent, practical guide to a compendium of assessment methods." --Reviewed by Klara K Papp, PhD (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine) Doody's Score: 93, 4 Stars!

