title: Direct observation and focused feedback for clinical skills training.
abstract: Direct observation of the medical trainee by an expert assessor and providing authentic feedback is considered an important tool for development of clinical and procedural skills. Mini-clinical evaluation exercise and Direct Observation of Procedural Skills are two important tools to observe the trainee during a clinical encounter or during a procedure, make an expert standardized (though subjective) observation, and use it to provide developmental feedback. Both can be easily integrated into routine work of clinical departments, and both provide a reliable assessment if 6-8 such encounters are used.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana and *University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to: Dr Tejinder Singh, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India. drtejinder22@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tejinder
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Shaveta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kundra
authors.forename: Piyush
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D019370:Observation / Q000379:methods*