Title |
Assessing the Written Communication Skills of Medical School Graduates
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Published in |
Advances in Health Sciences Education, March 2004
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DOI | 10.1023/b:ahse.0000012216.39378.15 |
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Authors |
John R. Boulet, Thomas A. Rebbecchi, Elizabeth C. Denton, Danette W. McKinley, Gerald P. Whelan |
Abstract |
The ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) was developed to evaluate whether graduates of international medical schools (IMGs) are ready to enter graduate training programs in the United States. The patient note (PN) exercise, conducted after a 15-minute interview with a standardized patient (SP), is specifically used to assess a candidate's ability to summarize and synthesize the data collected. On a yearly basis, approximately 75,000 patient notes are reviewed and scored by physician raters. Recent changes to the PN scoring rubric, combined with enhancements to quality assurance procedures, mandate that additional evidence be provided to support the intended use of PN scores. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the psychometric adequacy of PN scores. Generalizability analyses suggest that while variability in PN ratings can be attributed to the choice of rater, candidate scores are reproducible over the 10-encounter CSA. The relationship of PN scores with other related ability measures and select candidate characteristics provides additional evidence to support the validity of the written exercise. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Saint Lucia | 1 | 50% |
Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | 3% |
Portugal | 2 | 3% |
Colombia | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 69 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 14% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 14% |
Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 8% |
Other | 20 | 27% |
Unknown | 12 | 16% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 46% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 8% |
Social Sciences | 6 | 8% |
Linguistics | 2 | 3% |
Engineering | 2 | 3% |
Other | 12 | 16% |
Unknown | 12 | 16% |