A comparison of second‐ and fourth‐year medical students on a standardized‐patient examination of clinical competence: A construct validity study

Autor:	Amber J. Barnhart, Michelle L. Marcy, Jerry A. Colliver, Steven J. Verhulst
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Higher education business.industry Graduate medical education Construct validity Medical evaluation General Medicine Test validity Education Patient examination Medicine Clinical competence business Competence (human resources) Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 7:168-171
ISSN:	1532-8015 1040-1334
DOI:	10.1080/10401339509539735
Popis:	The construct validity of the standardized‐patient (SP) examination used at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine was assessed by comparing second‐year and fourth‐year medical students on five SP cases. The results showed sizable differences between the groups. In this article, we demonstrate the usefulness of passing rates and effect‐size measures as a means of enhancing the typically weak evidence for validity provided by group‐differences studies of construct validity. The results obtained with these approaches show that the clerkships are having a considerable effect on clinical competence, as would be expected, and that the examination is sensitive to these changes in the clinical‐competence construct as a valid measure of clinical competence should be.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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