Performance and workplace assessment
Chapter 38 Performance and workplace assessment L. Etheridge and K. Boursicot Introduction The apprenticeship model of medical training has existed for thousands of years: the apprentice learns from watching the…
Ethics and attitudes
Chapter 31 Ethics and attitudes A.V. Campbell, J. Chin and T.C. Voo Introduction Current accepted standards of medical ethics education: • Multidisciplinary and multiprofessional • Academically rigorous and related to research • Fully…
Written assessments
Chapter 37 Written assessments L.W.T. Schuwirth and C.P.M. van der Vleuten Introduction Written assessments are probably the most widely used assessment methods in education. Their popularity is mainly due to…
Peer-assisted learning
Chapter 16 Peer-assisted learning M.T. Ross and A.D. Cumming Introduction There has been a considerable increase in the number of medical schools incorporating various kinds of peer teaching, peer assessment…
Digital medical education
Chapter 27 Digital medical education R.H. Ellaway Introduction There has been a long history of educational technologies that have both defined and enabled the development of medical education. Pre-digital technologies…
Simulation-based medical education
Chapter 25 Simulation-based medical education D. Østergaard and P. Dieckmann Introduction Simulation-based medical education (SBME) in its widest sense should be defined as any educational activity that utilizes simulative tools…
Standard setting
Chapter 36 Standard setting J. Norcini and D.W. McKinley Introduction In medical education, it is common to need to identify knowledge or performance that is ‘just good enough’ for a…
Patient safety
Chapter 34 Patient safety I. Dror Introduction Patient safety is obviously not only paramount, but stands at the very crux of medical care. Why then, despite huge investments and efforts,…
Mobile learning (m-learning)
Chapter 28 Mobile learning (m-learning) J.E. Sandars and G.S. Frith Introduction Over the last few years, an increasing range of devices with computing capability have become available for use whilst…
Professionalism
Chapter 32 Professionalism P.M. Gliatto and D.T. Stern Introduction Consider the following scenarios: • A professor strongly urges his preclinical students to attend a session on the doctor–patient relationship because one…
