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Procedures for establishing defensible programmes for assessing practice performance.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12390461     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The assessment of the performance of doctors in practice is becoming more widely accepted. While there are many potential purposes for such assessments, sometimes the consequences of the assessments will be 'high stakes'. In these circumstances, any of the many elements of the assessment programme may potentially be challenged. These assessment programmes therefore need to be robust, fair and defensible, taken from the perspectives of consumer, assessee and assessor. In order to inform the design of defensible programmes for assessing practice performance, a group of education researchers at the 10th Cambridge Conference adopted a project management approach to designing practice performance assessment programmes. This paper describes issues to consider in the articulation of the purposes and outcomes of the assessment, planning the programme, the administrative processes involved, including communication and preparation of assessees. Examples of key questions to be answered are provided, but further work is needed to test validity.
Authors:
Stephen R Lew; Gordon G Page; Lambert W T Schuwirth; Margarita Baron-Maldonado; Joelle M J Lescop; Neil S Paget; Lesley J Southgate; Winifred B Wade
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Medical education     Volume:  36     ISSN:  0308-0110     ISO Abbreviation:  Med Educ     Publication Date:  2002 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2002-10-22     Completed Date:  2002-11-22     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7605655     Medline TA:  Med Educ     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  936-41     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Melbourne, Australia, Division of Educational Support and Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. stephen.lew@racgp.org.au
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Clinical Competence / standards*
Cost-Benefit Analysis / methods
Education, Medical / standards*
Humans
Physicians, Family / standards*
Quality of Health Care
Reproducibility of Results

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