Predicting resident clinical performance with in-training examinations.
Yearly oral in-training examinations that assess resident performance in the three domains of professional competence (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective) given over a seven year period correlated highly with subsequent resident clinical performance and also predicted with a high degree of significance, sensitivity, and specificity those "problem" interns whose clinical performance placed them in the lower 10% of interns. Scores received on written in-training examinations were not significantly correlated with clinical performance and did not identify "problem" residents.
Quattlebaum
T G
TG
Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-0793.
Darden
P M
PM
Sperry
J B
JB
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D013022:South Carolina