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Self-assessment in the health professions: a reformulation and research agendaKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, MDCL 3522, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Acad Med 80:S46-54. 2005- The relationship between interviewers' characteristics and ratings assigned during a multiple mini-interviewKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Acad Med 79:602-9. 2004..To assess the consistency of ratings assigned by health sciences faculty members relative to community members during an innovative admissions protocol called the Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI)... - Teaching from the clinical reasoning literature: combined reasoning strategies help novice diagnosticians overcome misleading informationKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 41:1152-8. 2007..This paper reports 2 studies demonstrating that the combined instructions are especially valuable in helping students overcome biasing influences... - How can I know what I don't know? Poor self assessment in a well-defined domainKevin W Eva
Program for Educational Research and Development, Room 101, Building T 13, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 9:211-24. 2004..Previous test score was a much better predictor of current test performance than were individuals' expectations... - The ability of the multiple mini-interview to predict preclerkship performance in medical schoolKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Programme for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Acad Med 79:S40-2. 2004..An innovative protocol, the Multiple Mini-Interview, has recently been shown to be feasible, acceptable, and reliable. This article presents a first assessment of the technique's validity... - What every teacher needs to know about clinical reasoningKevin W Eva
Program for Educational Research and Development, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
Med Educ 39:98-106. 2005..Over the last 30 years there has been considerable debate within the health sciences education literature regarding the model that best describes how expert clinicians generate diagnostic decisions... - Knowing when to look it up: a new conception of self-assessment abilityKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, MDCL 3522, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Acad Med 82:S81-4. 2007..This study examines the validity of a new conceptualization of self-assessment in practice and evaluates a series of measures for capturing self-assessment ability as defined by this new conceptualization... - Putting the cart before the horse: testing to improve learningKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
BMJ 334:535. 2007 - Using a sampling strategy to address psychometric challenges in tutorial-based assessmentsKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, MDCL 3510, McMaster University, L8N 3Z5, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 12:19-33. 2007..The current study was performed in an attempt to assess the psychometric characteristics of tutorial-based evaluation upon adopting a multiple sampling approach that requires minimal recording of observations... - Heuristics and biases--a biased perspective on clinical reasoningKevin W Eva
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Med Educ 39:870-2. 2005 - The difficulty with experience: does practice increase susceptibility to premature closure?Kevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biosta tistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Contin Educ Health Prof 26:192-8. 2006..To minimize confounding variables and gain insight into cognitive issues relevant to continuing education, the current study was performed to test this conclusion... - Where judgement fails: pitfalls in the selection process for medical personnelKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 9:161-74. 2004.... - Issues to consider when planning and conducting educational researchKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Programme for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Dent Educ 68:316-23. 2004..The article focuses on quantitative methods in general with particular attention paid to experimental designs... - An admissions OSCE: the multiple mini-interviewKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Programme for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 38:314-26. 2004.... - Teamwork during education: the whole is not always greater than the sum of the partsKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Programme for Educational Research and Development, Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 36:314-6. 2002 - The aging physician: changes in cognitive processing and their impact on medical practiceKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatics, Program for Education Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1
Acad Med 77:S1-6. 2002 - Expert-novice differences in memory: a reformulationKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, T 13, Room 101, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Teach Learn Med 14:257-63. 2002..One of the most discriminating measures of expertise in multiple domains has been performance on memory tasks. In medicine, however, the relation between expertise and memory is more equivocal... - Diagnostic error in medical education: where wrongs can make rightsKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 14:71-81. 2009.... - On the generality of specificityKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Programme for Educational Research and Development, T-13, Room 101, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Med Educ 37:587-8. 2003 - "I'll never play professional football" and other fallacies of self-assessmentKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Contin Educ Health Prof 28:14-9. 2008.... - Can the strength of candidates be discriminated based on ability to circumvent the biasing effect of prose? Implications for evaluation and educationKevin W Eva
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Acad Med 78:S78-81. 2003..Residents have greater confidence in diagnoses when indicative features are presented in medical terminology. The current study examines the implications of this result by assessing its relationship to clinical ability... - Predictive validity of the multiple mini-interview for selecting medical traineesKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 43:767-75. 2009..We also continue to explore the stability of candidate performance and the extent to which so-called 'cognitive' and 'non-cognitive' qualities should be deemed independent of one another... - Whither the need for faculty development?Kevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 40:99-100. 2006 - Comparison of aboriginal and nonaboriginal applicants for admissions on the Multiple Mini-Interview using aboriginal and nonaboriginal interviewersKristina Moreau
Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Teach Learn Med 18:58-61. 2006.... - Swapping horses midstream: factors related to physicians' changing their minds about a diagnosisKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Acad Med 85:1112-7. 2010..This factorial experiment explored which variables exert an unconfounded influence on physicians' diagnostic flexibility (changing their minds about the most likely diagnosis during a clinical case presentation)... - Do clinical clerks provide candidates with adequate formative assessment during Objective Structured Clinical Examinations?Harold I Reiter
McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 9:189-99. 2004.... - Assessing tutorial-based assessmentK W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 6:243-57. 2001..The current paper will review the evidence relevant to this assessment paradox, paying particular attention to the use of self-assessment... - Multiple mini-interviews predict clerkship and licensing examination performanceHarold I Reiter
Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 41:378-84. 2007..The Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) has previously been shown to have a positive correlation with early medical school performance. Data have matured to allow comparison with clerkship evaluations and national licensing examinations... - The reliability and acceptability of the Multiple Mini-Interview as a selection instrument for postgraduate admissionsKelly L Dore
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Acad Med 85:S60-3. 2010..Postgraduate applicant pools have smaller numbers of more homogeneous candidates that must be actively recruited while being assessed. This paper reports on the MMI's use in assessing residency candidates... - Medical school admissions: revisiting the veracity and independence of completion of an autobiographical screening toolMark D Hanson
HSC 3G41, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, Canada
Acad Med 82:S8-S11. 2007..However, confidence in the validity of these measures has been questioned... - Reflecting the relative values of community, faculty, and students in the admissions tools of medical schoolHarold I Reiter
McMaster University, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 325, Canada
Teach Learn Med 17:4-8. 2005..A novel protocol that provides the necessary flexibility is discussed... - Doggie diagnosis, diagnostic success and diagnostic reasoning strategies: an alternative viewGeoffrey R Norman
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, McMaster University, Room 2C14, Health Sciences Centre, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada
Med Educ 37:676-7. 2003 - The privileged status of prestigious terminology: impact of "medicalese" on clinical judgmentsGeoffrey R Norman
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Acad Med 78:S82-4. 2003..Health professionals frequently use medical terminology like dyspnea or nasopharyngitis. These two studies examine how the use of medical terms affects the judgments of seriousness, prevalence, and disease; and diagnostic judgments... - Stemming the tide: cognitive aging theories and their implications for continuing education in the health professionsKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program for Educational Research and Development, Room 101, T-13, 1280 Main Street West, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1
J Contin Educ Health Prof 23:133-40. 2003..The implications of these findings include the potential to tailor continuing education (and physician remediation) efforts toward the age-related abilities/deficiencies of individual physicians... - Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, CanadaC Nadine Wathen
Faculty of Information and Media Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
BMC Med Educ 9:34. 2009..The current project undertook a province-wide survey and environmental scan of educational opportunities available to future health care providers on the topic of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women... - Does mental illness stigma contribute to adolescent standardized patients' discomfort with simulations of mental illness and adverse psychosocial experiences?Mark D Hanson
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Acad Psychiatry 32:98-103. 2008..Paradoxically, however, ASP involvement may provide a stigma-reduction strategy. This article reports an investigation of this hypothetical association between simulation discomfort and mental illness stigma... - Extending the interview to all medical school candidates--Computer-Based Multiple Sample Evaluation of Noncognitive Skills (CMSENS)Kelly L Dore
Acad Med 84:S9-12. 2009..Most medical school candidates are excluded without benefit of noncognitive skills assessment. Is development of a noncognitive preinterview screening test that correlates with the well-validated Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) possible?.. - Factors predicting competence as assessed with the written component of the Canadian Physiotherapy Competency ExaminationPatricia A Miller
School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Physiother Theory Pract 26:12-21. 2010..Other future research initiatives should include additional demographic and educational factors and address the relationship between performance on both components of the PCE and actual clinical practice... - Diagnostic error and clinical reasoningGeoffrey R Norman
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 44:94-100. 2010..The consensus of this literature is that most errors are cognitive and result from the application of one or more cognitive biases. Such biased reasoning is usually associated with 'System 1' (non-analytic, pattern recognition) thinking... - Psychometric properties of a peer-assessment program to assess continuing competence in physical therapyPatricia A Miller
School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, IAHS Room 403, 1400 Main St West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Phys Ther 90:1026-38. 2010..The College of Physiotherapists of Ontario implemented an Onsite Assessment to evaluate the continuing competence of physical therapists... - Effects associated with adolescent standardized patient simulation of depression and suicidal ideationMark D Hanson
HSC 3G41, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Acad Med 82:S61-4. 2007..Because of common use of adolescent simulated patients (ASPs), clarification of the risk of negative effects associated with high-stress simulations is essential. This study evaluates the safety of suicidality simulations... - The benefits of flexibility: the pedagogical value of instructions to adopt multifaceted diagnostic reasoning strategiesTavinder K Ark
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 41:281-7. 2007..This study assesses the extent to which students spontaneously adopt a combined approach and compares its benefits with those experienced with a contrastive learning strategy known to enhance analogical transfer... - Medical school admissions: enhancing the reliability and validity of an autobiographical screening toolKelly L Dore
Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, MDCL 3510, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3Z5, Canada
Acad Med 81:S70-3. 2006..A reliable preinterview noncognitive measure would relax dependence upon screening based entirely on cognitive tendencies... - Implications of psychology-type theories for full curriculum interventionsGeoffrey R Norman
Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Med Educ 39:247-9. 2005 - Self and peer assessment in tutorials: application of a relative-ranking modelHarold I Reiter
Department of Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Acad Med 77:1134-9. 2002..CONCLUSION: The relative-ranking instrument developed did not prove to be a reliable measure of tutorial performance. Ratings were inconsistent from one week to the next as well as across raters within a week... - A cost efficiency comparison between the multiple mini-interview and traditional admissions interviewsJack M Rosenfeld
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13:43-58. 2008..The absolute costs will vary dependent on institution, but the framework presented in this paper will hopefully provide greater guidance regarding logistical requirements and anticipated budget... - The effect of defined violations of test security on admissions outcomes using multiple mini-interviewsHarold I Reiter
Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8Z 3N5, Canada
Med Educ 40:36-42. 2006..RESULTS: No statistically significant differences in MMI performances were detected. CONCLUSIONS: Predictable violations of MMI security do not unduly influence applicant performance ratings... - Giving learners the best of both worlds: do clinical teachers need to guard against teaching pattern recognition to novices?Tavinder K Ark
Program for Educational Research and Development, MDCL 3522, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 3Z5
Acad Med 81:405-9. 2006..01). CONCLUSIONS: The results support an additive model of clinical reasoning in which instructions to be feature oriented and to trust similarity improve performance in novice diagnosticians... - Does clinical experience make up for failure to keep up to date?Geoffrey R Norman
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
ACP J Club 142:A8-9. 2005 - Does clinical experience make up for failure to keep up to date?G R Norman
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Equine Vet J 39:319-21. 2007 - Can self-declared personal values be used to identify those with family medicine career aspirations?Renee A Beach
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Undergraduate MD Program, Program for Educational Research and Development, MDCL 3522, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13:193-202. 2008..This study's objective was to determine whether limited differences can nevertheless be used to identify those with particular interest in primary care... - Holiday review. Are all the taken men good? An indirect examination of mate-choice copying in humansKevin W Eva
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
CMAJ 175:1573-4. 2006 - The Completeness of Reporting (CORE) index identifies important deficiencies in observational study conference abstractsMichelle E Kho
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
J Clin Epidemiol 61:1241-9. 2008..The aim was to develop, test, and apply an index to assess the completeness of reporting in a cohort of observational studies of conference abstracts... - Clinical experience and quality of health careGeoffrey R Norman
Ann Intern Med 143:85-6; author reply 86-7; discussion 87. 2005 - Is there any real virtue of virtual reality?: the minor role of multiple orientations in learning anatomy from computersAmit X Garg
McMaster U niversity, 1280 Main Street, W. Hamilton ON L8K 4T1, Canada
Acad Med 77:S97-9. 2002 - Dangerous personalitiesKevin W Eva
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 10:275-7. 2005 - The cross-cutting edge: striving for symbiosis between medical education research and related disciplinesKevin W Eva
Med Educ 42:950-1. 2008 - On the limits of systematicityKevin W Eva
Med Educ 42:852-3. 2008 - What's next? A guiding question for educators engaged in educational researchKevin W Eva
Med Educ 42:752-4. 2008 - Covering up the crystal ballKevin W Eva
Med Educ 42:330-2. 2008 - Workplace-based assessment for general practitioners: using stakeholder perception to aid blueprinting of an assessment batteryDouglas J Murphy
National Health Service NHS Education for Scotland, West of Scotland Region, Glasgow, UK
Med Educ 42:96-103. 2008.... - The yin and yang of education researchKevin W Eva
Med Educ 41:724-5. 2007 - Clinical practice guidelines in the intensive care unit: a survey of Canadian clinicians' attitudesTasnim Sinuff
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and University of Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
Can J Anaesth 54:728-36. 2007..To understand clinicians' perceptions regarding practice guidelines in Canadian intensive care units (ICUs) to inform guideline development and implementation strategies...