An Assessment of the Clinical Skills of Fourth-Year Students at Four New England Medical Schools.

Stillman, Paula L.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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An Assessment of the Clinical Skills of Fourth-Year Students at Four New England Medical Schools.

Stillman, Paula L.; And Others

Academic Medicine, v65 n5 p320-26 May 1990

Faculty from 5 New England medical schools developed 36 patient cases representing a variety of common ambulatory-care problems. Students were tested by interacting with 16 different standardized patients, who were nonphysicians trained to accurately and consistently portray a patient in a simulated clinical setting. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Counseling, Higher Education, Medical Case Histories, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Medical Students, Patient Education, Patients, Physical Examinations, Scores, Simulation, Skills, Student Evaluation, Test Construction, Tests

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