Objective Skills Clinical Examination: Every Day in the Field of Practice

Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised in day-to-day clinical practice.

SIR—We read with interest the research letter by Larner about the clinical utility of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) [1]. In this study, we presume that the ACE-R was compared to a comprehensive clinical evaluation (a history, physical and cognitive examination plus pertinent investigations) performed by a clinician blinded to the test score. The results obtained make u...

Objective Structured Field Examination (OSFE)

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Comparison of two instruments for assessing communication skills in a general practice objective structured clinical examination.

OBJECTIVE In recent decades, there has been increased interest in tools for assessing and improving the communication skills of general practice trainees. Recently, experts in the field rated the older Maas Global (MG) and the newer Common Ground (CG) instruments among the better communication skills assessment tools. This report seeks to establish their cross-validity. METHODS Eighty trainee...

The Bacteriology of Every-Day Practice

to assist those who passed through their professional curriculum before bacteriology had taken a recognised place as a subject of instruction. How well it is adapted to carry out this intention may be realised when we state that in a space of less than one hundred pages there has been found room for chapters on materials and instruments, the preparation and staining of films, general infections...

The Bacteriology of Every-Day Practice