Commentary: Accurate Medical Student Performance Evaluations and Professionalism Assessment: “Yes, We Can!”

Commentary: Accurate medical student performance evaluations and professionalism assessment: "Yes, we can!".

In this issue, Brenner and colleagues report a correlation between the frequency of negative comments in the "dean's letter" and future problems during a psychiatry residency program. Their study makes an important contribution to the body of literature on factors that predict professionalism-related performance issues during residency and suggests the importance of dependable data that can be ...

Ecosystem Model Skill Assessment. Yes We Can!

NEED TO ASSESS THE SKILL OF ECOSYSTEM MODELS Accelerated changes to global ecosystems call for holistic and integrated analyses of past, present and future states under various pressures to adequately understand current and projected future system states. Ecosystem models can inform management of human activities in a complex and changing environment, but are these models reliable? Ensuring tha...

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

Advocacy: yes we can.

It is an honor and privilege to address you as president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. For more than 100 years, this organization has represented the best of physician-scientists. Since it is now 2012, there is the possibility that this could be the last ASCI presidential address. But we will assume the Mayans miscalculated and that we should look to the future. With the A...

Student Evaluations and the Assessment of Teaching: What Can We Learn from the Data?