Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence

Offering a <b>multifaceted, practical approach</b> to the complex topic of clinical assessment, <i>Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence, 3rd Edition</i>, is designed to help medical educators employ<b> better assessment methods, tools, and models</b> directly into their training programs. World-renowned editors and expert contributing authors provide <b>hands-on, authoritative guidance on outcomes-based assessment</b> 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.<ul><li>Helps medical educators and administrators answer <b>complex, ongoing, and critical questions in today’s changing medical education system</b>: 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?</li><li>Provides <b>practical suggestions and assessment approaches that can be implemented immediately</b> 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.</li><li>Covers <b>assessment techniques</b>, frameworks, high-quality assessment of clinical reasoning and procedural competence, psychometrics, and practical approaches to feedback.</li><li>Includes <b>expanded coverage of fast-moving areas</b> 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.</li><li>Offers examples of <b>assessment instruments</b> along with suggestions on how you can apply these methods and instruments in your own setting, as well as <b>guidelines that apply across the medical education spectrum.</b></li><li>Includes <b>online access to videos</b> of medical interviewing scenarios and more, downloadable assessment tools, and detailed faculty guidelines.</li><li><b>An eBook version is included with purchase. </b>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.</li></ul>