Background: Evaluation is an essential and integral part of medical education. Based on the evidence, current common methods are less effective due to lack accurate assessment students' clinical skills. Clinical evaluation students in form direct observation practical situations will increase their ability deal with events specific patient situations. Objectives: In this study, effectiveness pr...

PURPOSE The efficacy and sufficiency of a healthcare system is directly related to the knowledge and skills of graduates working in the system. In this regard, many different assessment methods have been proposed to evaluate various skills of the learners. Video Observation of Procedural Skills (VOPS) is one newly-proposed method. In this study we aimed to compare the results of the VOPS method...

CONTEXT Direct observation of medical trainees with actual patients is important for performance-based clinical skills assessment. Multiple tools for direct observation are available, but their characteristics and outcomes have not been compared systematically. OBJECTIVES To identify observation tools used to assess medical trainees' clinical skills with actual patients and to summarize the e...

introduction: evaluation of students’ learning in clinical education system is one of the most important and challenging issues that facilities in this field have been facing. the present study aimed to evaluate the role of feedback during evaluation in increasing emergency medicine residents’ clinical skills. method: the present experimental study was performed on all second year emergency med...