OBJECTIVES To examine how much distress children report in response to violence that they have witnessed and how this is associated with parental reports of children's behavior. METHODS As part of a study of in utero exposure to cocaine, children completed the Levonn interview for assessing children's symptoms of distress in response to witnessing violence. The children's caregivers completed...

Introduction Core competencies have progressively gained importance in medical education. In other contexts, especially personnel selection and development, assessment centers (ACs) are used to assess competencies, but there is only a limited number of studies on competency-based ACs in medical education. To the best of our knowledge, the present study provides the first data on the criterion-r...

This study was conducted to provide current information on the relationship between admission criteria and dental school performance, including the association of admission criteria and dental school outcomes such as remediation and attrition. Standard tests of bivariate association and multivariate regression models appropriate for continuous and discrete dependent variables were used to exami...

CONTEXT Assessment and management of pain for nursing home residents is frequently reported to be inadequate, yet few studies have used objective criteria to measure the quality of care related to pain. OBJECTIVE Field test a standardized resident interview and medical record review protocol to assess and score quality indicators relevant to pain. DESIGN Descriptive. SETTING Thirty nursin...

OBJECTIVE To report, and determine reasons for, a change in the gender ratio observed among enrolled medical students after removal of the interview from the selection process. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional study of 4051 students admitted to the medical program at the University of Queensland between 2004 and 2012. Students are enrolled either directly as graduates or via a...

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