Dr. Davis is Dean of the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, and Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Key Words: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Standardized Patients Hodges' group and the editor of Academic Psychiatry make a major contribution to the advancement of psychiatric education and assessment by the publication of this guide. The public's appetite for greater accountability in the practice of medicine and medical educators' increasing focus on performance measures of competence have grown markedly and converged in the last decade. Although orally administered clinical examinations have been around a long time, this guide by Brian Hodges and colleagues provides a much-needed "how-to" manual that supports psychiatric educators in the creation and maintenance of objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs). Although I will spend much of this commentary on the importance of the OSCE in the panoply of needed performance assessments in medical education, I think it is also important to comment on the quality of this manual. First, as it should be, this manual is practical; if you follow its lead, you can create an OSCE program. Conducting an OSCE, at least full-fledged OSCE, is no trivial or
The Hodges Psychiatry OSCE Guide and Emerging Trends in Assessment
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Dr. Davis is Dean of the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, and Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Key Words: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Standardized Patients Hodges' group and the editor of Academic Psychiatry make a major contribution to the advancement of psychiatric education and assessment by the publication of this guide. The public's appetite for greater accountability in the practice of medicine and medical educators' increasing focus on performance measures of competence have grown markedly and converged in the last decade. Although orally administered clinical examinations have been around a long time, this guide by Brian Hodges and colleagues provides a much-needed "how-to" manual that supports psychiatric educators in the creation and maintenance of objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs). Although I will spend much of this commentary on the importance of the OSCE in the panoply of needed performance assessments in medical education, I think it is also important to comment on the quality of this manual. First, as it should be, this manual is practical; if you follow its lead, you can create an OSCE program. Conducting an OSCE, at least full-fledged OSCE, is no trivial orPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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The Hodges Psychiatry OSCE Guide and Emerging Trends in Assessment
Davis, Glenn C.
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, Volume 26 (3): 184
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Sep 1, 2002
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