Script Concordance Tests for Formative Clinical Reasoning and Problem-Solving Assessment in General Pediatrics.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Script Concordance Tests (SCTs) are short clinical vignettes with proposed diagnoses, diagnostic studies, treatments, and management options for patient care scenarios. The SCTs included in this resource were incorporated into a required pediatric clerkship to facilitate formative student feedback and additional opportunities for precepting faculty to provide midclerkship feedback. Pediatric cases were specifically selected due to the scarcity of medical student experience with common pediatric clinical presentations.

Methods

We developed eight themed SCTs comprising 72 individual test items focused on common topics in general pediatrics. Items were administered to a convenience sample of third-year medical students during their required pediatric clerkship betw

SUBMITTER: Bhardwaj P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9485313 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature