The readings here represent some of the literature related to assessing physician competence. As usual, the methods may be open to question and discussion. Choose one paper to review and to link to your experience with learners. Please develop the concepts in the paper based on your teaching experiences.

V.Wass, C.Van der Vleuten, J.Shatzer, R.Jones

Assessment of clinical competence

The Lancet, Volume 357, Issue 9260, Pages 945-949

Wass.pdf 

Kuper A, Reeves, S. Assessment; do we need to broadern our methodological horizons?

Medical Education 2007; 41:1121-1123

Kuper.pdf 

Darzi A, Mackey S. Assessment of surgical competence. Quality in Healthcare 2001;10 ii64-ii69

assessmentSurgical.htm 

Pangaro: Evaluating the professional growth of medical trainees, this paper describes the transitions of a medical trainee from reporter to interpreter to manager to educator.

Sepdham: Using the RIME model for learner assessment and feedback. This model is useful to assess the level of an individual learner'sclinical performance based on case presentation.

RIME.pdf