USPSTF Testicular Examination Nomination–Self-Examinations and Examinations in a Clinical Setting

Developing And Using Clinical Examinations

Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Examinations

This-work may be regarded as a companion volume of Kolmer and Boerner's Applied Laboratory Technique. Hence, details of procedure are for the most part not given, except for an appended section of 140 pages which will undoubtedly prove valuable for those not having ready access to the previous elaborate text. The subject matter is treated from two points of view, mutually complementary. In the ...

Setting and maintaining standards in multiple choice examinations

Some time ago, I wrote a paper about the assessment of competence in which I argued that any assessment situation is inevitably a compromise between what is desirable and what is achievable (Van der Vleuten, 1996). There are no fixed and firm strategies that guarantee the perfect compromise. Things strongly depend on specific assessment contexts and local conditions. The challenge is to take a ...

Clinical examinations: a medical student’s perspective

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Setting defensible performance standards on OSCEs and standardized patient examinations.

Recently, standardized patient assessments and objective structured clinical examinations have been used for high-stakes certification and licensure decisions. In these testing situations, it is important that the assessments are standardized, the scores are accurate and reliable, and the resulting decisions regarding competence ar equitable and defensible. For the decisions to be valid, justif...