title: Assessment principles and tools.
abstract: The goal of ophthalmology residency training is to produce competent ophthalmologists. Competence can only be determined by appropriately assessing resident performance. There are accepted guiding principles that should be applied to competence assessment methods. These principles are enumerated herein and ophthalmology-specific assessment tools that are available are described.
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Eye Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Karl C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Golnik
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000193:education*
keywords: Assessment; Education; Feedback