Simulation as a high stakes assessment tool in emergency medicine.
Emerg Med Australas
; 27(2): 173-5, 2015 Apr.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25690440
ABSTRACT
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) will introduce high stakes simulation-based summative assessment in the form of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) into the Fellowship Examination from 2015. Miller's model emphasises that, no matter how realistic the simulation, it is still a simulation and examinees do not necessarily behave as in real life. OSCEs are suitable for assessing the CanMEDS domains of Medical Expert, Communicator, Collaborator and Manager. However, the need to validate the OSCE is emphasised by conflicting evidence on correlation with long-term faculty assessments, between essential actions checklists and global assessment scores and variable interrater reliability within individual OSCE stations and for crisis resource management skills. Although OSCEs can be a valid, reliable and acceptable assessment tool, the onus is on the examining body to ensure construct validity and high interrater reliability.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Clinical Competence
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Emergency Medicine
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Emerg Med Australas
Journal subject:
MEDICINA DE EMERGENCIA
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Australia
Publication country:
AU
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AUSTRALIA
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AUSTRÁLIA