Significance of experts' overall ratings for medical student competence in relation to history-taking

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Overall ratings (ORs) of competence, given by expert physicians, are increasingly used in clinical skills assessments. Nevertheless, the influence of specific components of competence on ORs is incompletely understood. The aim here was to investigate whether ORs for medical st...

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Main Author: Luiz Ernesto de Almeida Troncon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802006000200010&lng=en&tlng=en