| Medical students' self-assessment of performance: Results from three meta-analyses. | |
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PMID: 20708898 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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OBJECTIVE: Self-assessment is an important component of medical education. Meta-analyses were conducted to better understand accuracy of self-assessment and direction of inaccuracy. METHODS: Three meta-analyses were conducted on results from 35 published articles on medical student self-assessment, one for each of the theoretically distinct ways of measuring accuracy of self-reported ability (correlational, paired comparison, and independent means comparison). Characteristics that potentially influence self-assessment accuracy, including gender, year in medical school, and type of self-assessment, were examined. RESULTS: Students are moderately able to self-assess performance and are more accurate later in medical school. Students as a whole do not significantly over- or underestimate, but are more likely to overestimate on communication-based, standardized patient encounters than objective, knowledge-based performance measures. Female students underestimate their performance more than male students, but gender analyses are often unreported. CONCLUSION: A deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of over- and underestimation is impossible without measurement and reporting of the direction of inaccuracy. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: To improve our understanding of self-assessment and increase its effectiveness as a teaching tool, research should report self-assessment as both a correlation and a paired comparison, and conduct analyses of important moderators that can influence self-assessment accuracy. |
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Authors:
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Danielle Blanch-Hartigan |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-08-14 |
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Title: Patient education and counseling Volume: 84 ISSN: 1873-5134 ISO Abbreviation: Patient Educ Couns Publication Date: 2011 Jul |
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Created Date: 2011-06-13 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8406280 Medline TA: Patient Educ Couns Country: Ireland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 3-9 Citation Subset: N |
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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. |
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