The medical education literature was reviewed in four categories: (1) general studies of house officer teaching, (2) perceptions of the house officer's teaching role, (3) assessing and improving resident teaching skills, and (4) the teaching role of surgery residents. An agenda for research and development related to surgery resident teaching skills was proposed based on four research questions...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study was intended to assess the usefulness of standardized patients (SPs) in the evaluation of family medicine residents' clinical decision-making skills in ambulatory settings. METHODS A pool of SPs was trained about the symptoms of one of three clinical conditions (depression, headache, or irritable bowel syndrome). These patients were then surreptitiously in...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The majority of resident satisfaction surveys available for use in assisted living settings have been developed in the United States; however, empirical assessment of their measurement properties remains limited and sporadic, as does knowledge regarding their applicability for use in settings outside of the United States. This study further examines the psychometric propert...

OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND We hypothesized that evaluation scores for attending neurologists by patients and residents would parallel one another. Additionally, we hypothesized that provider productivity would be also be associated with performance evaluations by patients and residents. METHODS In a university neurology department, we collected individual Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment...