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Effective evaluation of residency education: how do we know it when we see it?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Siegel, Benjamin S. Greenberg, Larrie W. |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | Evaluation of medical education is a very complex and challenging process. The Supreme Court of the United States, in trying to define when free speech becomes pornography, noted simply that when you see it, you will know it. The proverbial blind men trying to define the elephant defined the pachyderm by describing the individual parts, without being able to se the whole picture. Miller, in his 1989 invited address1 to the Research in Medical Education group, part of the Association of American Medical Colleges, suggested a pyramid as the framework for assessment of clinical performance, the bottom representing Knowledge and the top Action. Most of the clinical assessment on which we rely currently is at the bottom of the pyramid; ie, knowledge. We use in-house testing as a way to examine resident cognitive skills, and the American Board of Pediatrics continues that approach … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 10742356 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 105 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Part | 2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/105/Supplement_3/964.full.pdf |
| Journal | Pediatrics |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
