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Use of External Examinations to Involve Faculty in Curriculum Content Evaluation.
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Young, Larry D.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
A method for curriculum evaluation that utilizes content and student performance analyses of both an external certifying exam and curriculum components is reported. Findings demonstrate that a multidisciplinary grouping of courses can satisfactorily cover content deemed important by external judges and by internal course directors and instructors.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Surgery Resident Selection and Evaluation: A Critical Incident Study.
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Edwards, Janine C.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1993
Selecting and evaluating general surgery residents were studied using the Critical Incident Technique for 235 critical incidents identified by 10 faculty members and 4 senior residents. Derived categories of behavior to define surgical competence were used to develop an interview evaluation form and a handbook for interviewing applicants. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Competence, Critical Incidents Method
The Changing Health Care System: A Research Agenda for Medical Education.
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Xu, Gang; Hojat, Mohammadreza; Veloski, J. Jon; Gonnella, Joseph S. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1999
Discusses the potential impact of trends in the health-care environment on these aspects of medical education: admissions, faculty, curriculum, and educational outcome. Proposes research questions intended to guide inquiry and empirical studies in each of these four domains. Contains references. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, College Admission, Curriculum Development, Health
Reliability and Accuracy of Resident Evaluations of Surgical Faculty.
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Risucci, Donald A.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
The reliability and accuracy of evaluations of 126 surgical faculty made by 47 general surgery residents over 2 years were examined. The general accuracy and reliability over both years indicate that anonymous ratings of surgical faculty by groups of residents can be a valuable evaluation method. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students
The Attending Round Observation System: A Procedure for Describing Teaching During Attending Rounds.
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Weinholtz, Donn; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Two separate reliability studies were conducted on an observational instrument derived from previous qualitative research and designed for collecting data on teaching behaviors during attending rounds. The reliability estimates from both studies were quite high, indicating that the instrument shows promise for use in both research and evaluation…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Graduate Medical Education, Higher Education, Interrater Reliability
A Deterministic Theory of Clinical Performance Rating: Promising Early Results.
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Cason, Gerald J.; Cason, Carolyn L. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1984
The proposed theory provides a basis for both measuring and correcting rater stringency error in some grossly incomplete rating data matrices. The theoretical model fits ratings made by faculty and resident physicians of student clinical performance in each of three junior year medical student cohorts better than alternative models. (Author)
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Pediatric Resident Performance: The Reliability and Validity of Rating Forms.
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Levine, Harold G.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
A large pediatric residency program conducted an extensive analysis of the reliability and validity of the rating forms used to evaluate the pediatric residents enrolled in the program. Data indicate that although the reliability of individual ratings is very low, several factors achieved acceptable levels of reliability when aggregated.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education
Evaluation of a Medical Faculty Development Program: A Comparison of Traditional Pre/Post and Retrospective Pre/Post Self-Assessment Ratings.
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Skeff, Kelley M.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
A comparison of changes in traditional pre/post self-assessment ratings with changes in retrospective pre/post self-assessment ratings for 29 medical faculty members indicated that retrospective pre/post ratings may provide a more sensitive and valid measure of the effects of faculty development efforts. (SLD)
Descriptors: Change, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Development
Faculty Perspectives of a Valid and Reliable Clinical Tutor on Program.
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McLeod, P. J. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1991
Faculty opinions of an evaluation program for medical school clinical tutors were obtained through a survey of 24 undergraduate clinical tutors. Although students had been using the evaluation instrument to rate teachers for five years, faculty expressed many reservations about its reliability and validity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Medical Education