Assessing the growth in clinical skills using a progress clinical skills examination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study evaluates the generalizability of an eight-station progress clinical skills examination and assesses the growth in performance for six clinical skills domains among first- and second-year medical students over four time points during the academic year.

Methods

We conducted a generalizability study for longitudinal and cross-sectional comparisons and assessed growth in six clinical skill domains via repeated measures ANOVA over the first and second year of medical school.

Results

The generalizability of the examination domain scores was low but consistent with previous studies of data gathering and communication skills. Variations in case difficulty across administrations of the examination made it difficult to assess longitudinal growth. It was p

SUBMITTER: Laird-Fick HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7197398 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature