Practical Guide to the Assessment of Clinical Competence

• Helps medical educators and administrators answer complex, ongoing, and critical questions in today’s changing medical education system: 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?
• Provides practical suggestions and assessment approaches that can be implemented immediately 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.
• Covers assessment techniques, frameworks, high-quality assessment of clinical reasoning and procedural competence, psychometrics, and practical approaches to feedback.
• Includes expanded coverage of fast-moving areas 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.
• Offers examples of assessment instruments along with suggestions on how you can apply these methods and instruments in your own setting, as well as guidelines that apply across the medical education spectrum.
• Includes online access to videos of medical interviewing scenarios and more, downloadable assessment tools, and detailed faculty guidelines.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. 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.

Medical educators involved in conducting assessments of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students: Faculty, Deans, Administrators, Curriculum Designers, Instructors/Educators, Education Researchers, grad students in basic sci programs leading to medical educator positions (Anatomy Education tracks, etc.)