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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Electrodiagnostic medicine skills competency in physical medicine and rehabilitation residents: a method for development and assessment.

Aug 2008 This project sought to create an educational module including evaluation methodology to instruct physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM and R) residents in electrodiagnostic evaluation of patients with neuromuscular... Read more...

Video assessment of basic surgical trainees' operative skills.

Aug 2008 BACKGROUND: We previously described a feasible, reliable, valid, and acceptable clinical assessment form for basic surgical trainees (BSTs). We now recently assessed tissue-handling skills using real-time assessment... Read more...

A structured conference program improves competency-based surgical education.

Aug 2008 BACKGROUND: Work hour restrictions and new educational standards pose substantial challenges for modern residency programs. We present results from an institutional effort to improve resident education using a... Read more...

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• Electrodiagnostic medicine skills competency in physical medicine and rehabilitation residents: a method for development and assessment. Aug 2008
• Video assessment of basic surgical trainees' operative skills. Aug 2008
• A structured conference program improves competency-based surgical education. Aug 2008
• Reliability of a revised NOTECHS scale for use in surgical teams. Aug 2008
• Emergency physician rights and responsibilities. Aug 2008
• The 2005 Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine: the 2007 update. Aug 2008
• How to be good at practical procedures? Aug 2008
• Acute otitis media in the first two months of life: characteristics and diagnostic difficulties. Aug 2008
• [Have physicians lost their ability to think?] 16 Jul 2008
• Association between maintenance of certification examination scores and quality of care for medicare beneficiaries. 14 Jul 2008
• What do certification examinations tell us about quality? 14 Jul 2008
• Nonsurgical skills do not predict baseline scores in inanimate box or virtual-reality trainers. Jul 2008
• Quantitative and individualized assessment of the learning curve using LC-CUSUM. Jul 2008
• Obesity and the respiratory physician. Jul 2008
• Can junior doctors prescribe? Jul 2008
• Comparative study of experienced vs non-experienced radiologists in assessing parametric CT images of the response of the prostate gland to radiotherapy. Jul 2008
• Subspecialty differences in asthma characteristics and management. Jul 2008
• Chronic care model and shared care in diabetes: randomized trial of an electronic decision support system. Jul 2008
• Back to the basic sciences: an innovative approach to teaching senior medical students how best to integrate basic science and clinical medicine. Jul 2008
• Perspective: transforming chronic care for older persons. Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Clinical Competence'

Definition: The capability to perform acceptably those duties directly related to patient care.

Descriptor UI: D002983

Alternative terms: Clinical Competence; Competence, Clinical; Clinical Skill; Skill, Clinical; Skills, Clinical; Clinical Skills;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: I02.399.630.210; N04.761.210;

History Note: 75

Technical Notes: competence in professional activities directly related to patient care: differentiate from PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE which refers to competence not necessarily related to patient care; DF: CLIN COMPETENCE