Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Recent submissions
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Implementing workplace-based assessment across the medical specialties in the United Kingdom.
(2008)OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the reliability and feasibility of assessing the performance of medical specialist registrars (SpRs) using three methods: the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX), directly observed procedural ... -
Factors affecting the utility of the multiple mini-interview in selecting candidates for graduate-entry medical school
(2008)CONTEXT: We wished to determine which factors are important in ensuring interviewers are able to make reliable and valid decisions about the non-cognitive characteristics of candidates when selecting candidates for entry ... -
Specialty-specific multi-source feedback: assuring validity, informing training
(2008)CONTEXT: The white paper 'Trust, Assurance and Safety: the Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century' proposes a single, generic multi-source feedback (MSF) instrument in the UK. Multi-source feedback was ... -
Implementing the undergraduate mini-CEX: a tailored approach at Southampton University
(2009)OBJECTIVES: The mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX) is widely used in the UK to assess clinical competence, but there is little evidence regarding its implementation in the undergraduate setting. This study aimed ... -
Mini-clinical evaluation exercise in anaesthesia training
(2009)BACKGROUND: The Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) is a workplace-based assessment tool of potential value in anaesthesia to assess and improve clinical performance. Its reliability and positive educational impact ... -
The development and evaluation of a Professional Self Identity Questionnaire to measure evolving professional self-identity in health and social care students
(2009)BACKGROUND: Professional self-identity is a 'state of mind' -- identifying one's-self as a member of a professional group. Delayed professional self-identity is a barrier to successful transition from student to professional. ... -
Should candidate scores be adjusted for interviewer stringency or leniency in the multiple mini-interview?
(2010)CONTEXT: There are significant levels of variation in candidate multiple mini-interview (MMI) scores caused by interviewer-related factors. Multi-facet Rasch modelling (MFRM) has the capability to both identify these sources ... -
Evaluation of procedure-based assessment for assessing trainees' skills in the operating theatre
(2011)BACKGROUND: Procedure-based assessment (PBA) is used within most UK surgical training programmes for assessing trainees' procedural skills in the operating theatre. All postgraduate assessment methods require evidence to ... -
A single generic multi-source feedback tool for revalidation of all UK career-grade doctors: does one size fit all?
(2011)BACKGROUND: The UK Department of Health is considering a single, generic multi-source feedback (MSF) questionnaire to inform revalidation. METHOD: Evaluation of an implementation pilot, reporting: response rates, assessor ... -
Diagnosing a learning practice: the validity and reliability of a learning practice inventory
(2011)BACKGROUND: There is an increasing literature on learning organisations as a way of fostering communication, teamwork, collaboration and collective learning, thereby promoting quality improvement and enhancing patient ... -
Assessing the surgical skills of trainees in the operating theatre: a prospective observational study of the methodology
(2011)OBJECTIVES: To compare user satisfaction and acceptability, reliability and validity of three different methods of assessing the surgical skills of trainees by direct observation in the operating theatre across a range of ... -
Prospective observational study to evaluate NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) for assessing trainees' non-technical performance in the operating theatre
(2011)BACKGROUND: Most surgical assessment has been aimed at technical proficiency. However, non-technical skills also affect patient safety and clinical effectiveness. The NOTSS (Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons) assessment ... -
Good questions, good answers: construct alignment improves the performance of workplace-based assessment scales
(2011)CONTEXT: Assessment in the workplace is important, but many evaluations have shown that assessor agreement and discrimination are poor. Training discussions suggest that assessors find conventional scales invalid. We ... -
A final clinical examination using a sequential design to improve cost-effectiveness
(2011)Abstract CONTEXT: Good examinations have a number of characteristics, including validity, reliable scores, educational impact, practicability and acceptability. Scores from the objective structured clinical examination ... -
Getting the questions right: non-compound questions are more reliable than compound questions on matched multi-source feedback instruments
(2011)CONTEXT: Multi-source feedback (MSF) provides a window into complex areas of performance in real workplace settings. However, because MSF elicits subjective judgements, many respondents are needed to achieve a reliable ... -
Student doctors taking responsibility
(2011)BACKGROUND: New guidelines require all undergraduate medical students to undertake at least one period of assistantship where they assume most of the responsibilities of a first-year graduate doctor (FY1 doctor in the UK) ... -
Making sense of work-based assessment: ask the right questions, in the right way, about the right things, of the right people
(2012)CONTEXT: Historically, assessments have often measured the measurable rather than the important. Over the last 30 years, however, we have witnessed a gradual shift of focus in medical education. We now attempt to teach and ... -
Do assessor comments on a multi-source feedback instrument provide learner-centred feedback?
(2013)OBJECTIVES: Free-text comments in multi-source feedback are intended to facilitate change in the assessee's practice. This study was designed to utilise a large dataset of free-text comments obtained in a national pilot ... -
Validity and truth in assessment
(2013)