The standardized patient is one method which can be used in the measurement of clinical competence. The accuracy of reproduction of important features of the patient case by the standardized patient was evaluated in Studies 1 and 2. In 839 encounters reviewed, only 13/89 patients provided an accurate reproduction of the case. Attributes of the patient, training process and evaluation procedure were associated with better patient accuracy. A significant inverse relationship was found between patient accuracy and competence score. In Study 3, the use of standardized patients as raters of behaviour was assessed. There were systematic differences in the scoring by different raters, and overall rater agreement was r =.41.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.74219 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Tamblyn, Robyn M. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000937341, proquestno: AAINL57157, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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