Using cloud-based mobile technology for assessment of competencies among medical students.

ABSTRACT: Valid, direct observation of medical student competency in clinical settings remains challenging and limits the opportunity to promote performance-based student advancement. The rationale for direct observation is to ascertain that students have acquired the core clinical competencies needed to care for patients. Too often student observation results in highly variable evaluations which are skewed by factors other than the student's actual performance. Among the barriers to effective direct observation and assessment include the lack of effective tools and strategies for assuring that transparent standards are used for judging clinical competency in authentic clinical settings. We developed a web-based content management system under the name, Just in Time Medicine (JIT), to address many o

SUBMITTER: Ferenchick GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3792179 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature