Monitoring Communication Skills Progress of Medical Students: Establishing a baseline has value, predicting the future is difficult

Competency-based, time-variable medical education (CBTV), which requires valid developmental competency assessments to both support student learning and make defensible promotion judgments, is the emerging model for health professions education [1,2]. Ideally, these competency assessments should be robust, fit for purpose, and substantively contribute to longitudinal programs of assessment to scaffold students ’ learning [3]. However, all these characteristics are rarely present in the assessment of clinical communication skills.

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 13, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kathleen Hanley, Colleen Gillespie, Sondra Zabar, Jennifer Adams, Adina Kalet Source Type: research