Comparing patient-management skills of referred physicians and non-referred physicians on a computer-based case-simulation examination
| Autor: | Korinek E, Illige M, De Champlain Af, Margaret MacKrell Gaglione, Guernsey J, Liston W, Laduca T, Leung C, Richard E. Hawkins, Andrea Ciccone, Laurel Sample |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Specialty Standardized test General Medicine Certification United States Education Pharmacotherapy Social skills Scale (social sciences) Family medicine medicine Normative Humans Computer Simulation Clinical Competence Educational Measurement Medical prescription business Referral and Consultation |
| Zdroj: | Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 76 |
| ISSN: | 1040-2446 |
| Popis: | Diagnostic assessment of practicing physicians is modest in scale, and normative data for practicing physicians are virtually nonexistent in the U.S. It is the responsibility of state licensing boards to ensure the competency of their licensed physicians. Increasingly, state licensing boards are responding to the concerns of patients, communities, and hospitals regarding the continued clinical competence of physicians. 1 Precipitating events may involve deficiencies in prescription of pharmacotherapy, patient management, and interpersonal skills. The Assessment Center Program (ACP) is a joint activity of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). It is a program of standardized tests intended to assist state medical boards (SMBs) in their diagnostic assessment of physicians whose clinical competence has been questioned. This type of personalized assessment of physicians has increased since the 1980s, with a sizeable proportion of the work being done in Canada. 2,3 The target candidate of the ACP is a physician referred by a state medical board because of concerns about his or her clinical competence. In a study of doctors in California 4 it was found that disciplined doctors were less likely to be board certified than were a matched group of non-disciplined physicians. Age has also been reported to be a predictor of physicians’ being identified for deficiencies in clinical competence. 5 |
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