PURPOSE Obtaining informed consent is an essential skill in internal medicine (IM). The authors' informal observations and formal testing revealed deficiencies in residents' informed consent skills. This study evaluated how residents acquire informed consent skills and how informed consent skills are addressed in Canadian IM residency programs. METHOD A questionnaire was delivered to all 16 I...

BACKGROUND Pediatric cardiopulmonary arrests are rare. Mock codes were instituted to bridge the gap between opportunity and reality. AIM The goal was to improve medical caregivers' skills in pediatric resuscitation. METHODS All pediatric and internal medicine/pediatric (med/peds) residents were anonymously surveyed pre- and post-intervention about confidence level about codes and code skill...

BACKGROUND Residency training is charged with improving resident teaching skills. Utilizing simulation in teacher training has unique advantages such as providing a controlled learning environment and opportunities for deliberate practice. OBJECTIVE We assessed the impact of a simulation-based resident-as-teacher (RaT) program. DESIGN A RaT program was embedded in an existing 8-case simulat...

This article first introduces a new psychological construct and then presents the psychometric properties of a new multidimensional measure for assessing workplace relational civility (WRC). This new self-report mirror measure has two specular sections (Part A-Me with others; Part B-Others with me) that can assess individuals' relational patterns regarding civility and that can help reduce the ...

OBJECTIVES To enable prevention of poor outcome in elderly people, a valid instrument is required to detect individuals at high risk. The concept of frailty is a better predictor than age alone. The Groningen Frailty Indicator (GFI) has been developed to identify frailty. We assessed feasibility, reliability, and construct validity of the self-assessment version of the GFI. DESIGN Cross-secti...

OBJECTIVES Health risk assessment (HRA) questionnaires have become a popular tool to help quantify health issues within populations. Over the last decade HRAs have increasingly been delivered in the online environment. The objective of this study was to create and validate an HRA that is optimized for delivery via the Internet. DESIGN After an iterative process of user testing and interface d...

Objectives To evaluate the merit of the Clinical Audit Project (CAP) in an assessment program for undergraduate medical education using a systematic assessment validation framework. Methods A cross-sectional assessment validation study at one medical school in Western Australia, with retrospective qualitative analysis of the design, development, implementation and outcomes of the CAP, and qua...

Internal controls constitute a key concept in the auditing domain. In the audit risk assessment process, auditors evaluate a firm’s internal control system to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of the entity’s objectives. The present work reflects upon the design of a domain-specific modelling language for internal controls modelling. It investigates the potentials of an ent...