OBJECTIVES To assess the reliability and validity of faculty evaluations of medicine residents. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study (2004-2012) involving 228 internal medicine residency graduates at the Medical College of Wisconsin who were evaluated by 334 attendings. Measures included evaluations of residents by attendings, based on six competencies and interns and residents' perform...

One of the most important requirements of developing appropriate strategies for international marketing is correct identification of target markets. Using quantitative techniques and decision making skills will lead to better results regarding the evaluation of marketing strategies. In this study, first we have used internal factor evaluation (IFE) matrix for recognizing and comparing strengths...

OBJECTIVE To assess communication and interpersonal skills (CIS) of radiology residents through faculty and standardised patients (SP). METHODS In this day-long objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in January 2009, 42 radiology residents took part at six stations in Karachi, each with a standardised patient and a faculty evaluator. Each encounter lasted 15 minutes followed by inde...

The goal of present study was to translate and validate the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ; Steger, Frazier, Oishi, & Kaler, 2006) with a Chinese sample. We examined the internal consistency, validity and the factorial invariance across gender groups. A total of 347 Chinese university students were invited to take part in this study. The findings demonstrated that the scale had satisfactory...

CONTEXT Unprofessional behaviors in medical school predict high stakes consequences for practicing physicians, yet little is known about specific behaviors associated with professionalism during residency. OBJECTIVE To identify behaviors that distinguish highly professional residents from their peers. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Comparative study of 148 first-year internal medicine re...

OBJECTIVE To develop a valid and reliable assessment tool for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected prospectively in an observational study through evaluations at two tertiary academic institutions, i.e. St. Paul's Sinus Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2006 to D...

purpose : to evaluate usefulness of anterior segment optical coherence tomography (as-oct) in evaluation of filtering bleb functionality and to correlate its findings with clinical bleb examination methods : in this cross-sectional, descriptive study 55 eyes with apparently functional bleb were evaluated. following a comprehensive ophthalmic examination, filtering bleb grading was performed bas...