- Title
- Written assessment
- Creator
- Jolly, Brian
- Relation
- Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, theory and Practice p. 255-277
- Relation
- http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118472403.html
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Assessment has become accepted as a critical part of educational and accreditation strategies used in health professions education. The senior guardians of those professions have traditionally had high standards and developed refined means of ensuring them. With increased international concern for patent safety, the need for efficient, reliable and valid assessment has become vital. In turn, this has led to a search for increasing levels of sophistication in testing, mostly targeted at the development of hi-fidelity simulations and work-based assessments. However, health professionals operate across a very broad spectrum of human activity, from listening and talking to patients, to intricate and physically demanding interventions. Knowledge and thinking play a crucial role in these undertakings, and there is considerable evidence to suggest that knowledge, and its storage in clinically useful frameworks, are the most important attributes that divide the novice from the expert.
- Description
- 2nd ed.
- Subject
- medical education; medical administration; assessments; accreditation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067360
- Identifier
- uon:18389
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781118472408
- Language
- eng
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