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A controlled study to determine measurement conditions necessary for a reliable and valid operative performance assessment: a controlled prospective observational studyReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794, USA
Ann Surg 256:177-87. 2012..This study evaluated operative performance rating (OPR) characteristics and measurement conditions necessary for reliable and valid operative performance (OP) assessment...- A template for reliable assessment of resident operative performance: assessment intervals, numbers of cases and ratersReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA
Surgery 152:517-24; discussion 524-7. 2012..To guide program implementation, this study determined: 1) Appropriate intervals for OP progress decisions, 2) Number of OPRs and raters required per interval to achieve reproducible results... - Examining the diagnostic justification abilities of fourth-year medical studentsReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Acad Med 87:1008-14. 2012..However, these abilities are not systematically examined prior to graduation. This study examined diagnostic justification (DXJ) ability of medical students shortly before graduation... 
See one, do one, teach one--exploring the core teaching beliefs of medical school facultyReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Med Teach 28:418-24. 2006..Fifty-one respondents (41%) were found to have a blend of these viewpoints. Respondents' type of training or type of teaching did not provide a reliable indication of core teaching beliefs classification...
Surgeon information transfer and communication: factors affecting quality and efficiency of inpatient careReed G Williams
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA
Ann Surg 245:159-69. 2007..To determine the nature of surgeon information transfer and communication (ITC) errors that lead to adverse events and near misses. To recommend strategies for minimizing or preventing these errors...- Forecasting residents' performance--partly cloudyReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, 62794 9638, USA
Acad Med 80:415-22. 2005..While this article is couched in the context of the performance evaluation of residents, everything included pertains to measuring and appraising medical students' and practicing physicians' clinical performance as well... - The effects of group dynamics on resident progress committee deliberationsReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62794 9638, USA
Teach Learn Med 17:96-100. 2005..There is countervailing concern that group dynamics may compromise quality of progress decisions... - Assuring the reliability of resident performance appraisals: more items or more observations?Reed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 19638, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Surgery 137:141-7. 2005.... - Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies initiative: the road to implementation in the surgical specialtiesReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 800 North Rutledge Street, PO Box 19638, Springfield, IL 62794-9638, USA
Surg Clin North Am 84:1621-46, xi. 2004 - Prognostic value of resident clinical performance ratingsReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
J Am Coll Surg 199:620-7. 2004..This study investigated the concurrent and predictive validity of end-of-rotation (EOR) clinical performance ratings... - A sampling strategy for promoting and assessing medical student retention of physical examination skillsReed G Williams
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, 800 North Rutledge Street, PO Box 19638, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Acad Med 82:S22-5. 2007..The authors assessed the nature and size of physical examination performance samples necessary to accurately estimate total physical examination skill... - Medical student acquisition of clinical working knowledgeReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62794 9638, USA
Teach Learn Med 20:5-10. 2008..Working knowledge of physicians manifests as a combination of diagnostic pattern recognition and clinical data interpretation (analytic fact checking)... - Cognitive, social and environmental sources of bias in clinical performance ratingsReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 19638, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Teach Learn Med 15:270-92. 2003..This review explores cognitive, social, and environmental factors that contribute unwanted sources of score variation (bias) to clinical performance evaluations... - The nature of general surgery resident performance problemsReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 800 North Rutledge Street, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Surgery 145:651-8. 2009..The purpose of this study was to identify residents who had serious, substantive, and recurring academic, clinical, and/or professional behavior problems, and to describe and classify their nature... - The impact of a program for systematically recognizing and rewarding academic performanceReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Acad Med 78:156-66. 2003.... - A theory-based curriculum for enhancing surgical skillfulnessMargaret L Boehler
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794 9655, USA
J Am Coll Surg 205:492-7. 2007..We hypothesized that training novices with such a curriculum for a 1-month period would yield skills performance levels equivalent to those of second year surgery residents who had trained in a traditional program... - How do supervising surgeons evaluate guidance provided in the operating room?Xiaodong Phoenix Chen
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 19638, Springfield, IL 62794, USA
Am J Surg 203:44-8. 2012..This study explored the amount of guidance provided to residents in the operating room (OR) and the relationship of OR guidance with postgraduate year (PGY) and operative performance rating (OPR)... - Capturing the teachable moment: a grounded theory study of verbal teaching interactions in the operating roomNicole K Roberts
Department of Medical Education, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA
Surgery 151:643-50. 2012..We studied how surgeons communicate with residents during an operation, with the goal of enhancing intraoperative teaching opportunities... - Impact of a structured skills laboratory curriculum on surgery residents' intraoperative decision-making and technical skillsDebra DaRosa
Department of Surgery, 251 E Huron, Galter 3 150, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Acad Med 83:S68-71. 2008..This project sought to study the effectiveness of a curriculum to enhance the intraoperative clinical judgment and procedural skill of surgical residents... - Variables influencing medical student learning in the operating roomCathy J Schwind
Department of Surgery, P.O. Box 19638, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794-9638, USA
Am J Surg 187:198-200. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Surgical faculty behavior is a powerful determinant of student perceptions of what provides for a favorable learning environment in the OR... - Refining the evaluation of operating room performanceMichael J Kim
Department of Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Surg Educ 66:352-6. 2009..This study continues the examination of the Southern Illinois University (SIU) operative performance rating system (OPRS) by studying additional factors that may influence reliability, accuracy, and interpretability of results... - Skills coaches as part of the educational team: a randomized controlled trial of teaching of a basic surgical skill in the laboratory settingMichael J Kim
Department of Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Am J Surg 199:94-8. 2010..The aim of this study was to compare the laboratory teaching of a basic technical skill by a nonphysician skills coach and a faculty surgeon... - Do individual attendings' post-rotation performance ratings detect residents' clinical performance deficiencies?Cathy J Schwind
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, 62794 9638, USA
Acad Med 79:453-7. 2004..To determine whether attending physicians' post-rotation performance ratings and written comments detect surgery residents' clinical performance deficits... - The efficacy of a targeted remediation process for students who fail standardized patient examinationsDebra L Klamen
Department of Medical Education, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62794 9622, USA
Teach Learn Med 23:3-11. 2011..Current remediation strategies for students failing standardized patient examinations represent poorly targeted approaches since the specific nature of clinical performance weaknesses has not been defined... - Evaluating resident operative performance: a qualitative analysis of expert opinionsHilary Sanfey
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Springfield, IL 62794, USA
Surgery 150:759-70. 2011..To elicit and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of resident operative performance (ROP) as identified by independent expert ratings... - Use of simulated pages to prepare medical students for internship and improve patient safetyCathy J Schwind
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62794 9649, USA
Acad Med 86:77-84. 2011..The authors piloted the use of simulated pages to improve medical student preparedness, decrease stress related to pages, and familiarize medical students with common patient problems... - An investigation of medical student reactions to feedback: a randomised controlled trialMargaret L Boehler
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62794 9655, USA
Med Educ 40:746-9. 2006..The purpose of this study was to evaluate learning outcomes and perceptions in students who received feedback compared to those who received general compliments... - Pursuing professional accountability: an evidence-based approach to addressing residents with behavioral problemsHilary Sanfey
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794, USA
Arch Surg 147:642-7. 2012..To develop an evidence-based approach to the identification, prevention, and management of surgical residents with behavioral problems... - Feasibility, reliability and validity of an operative performance rating system for evaluating surgery residentsJennine L Larson
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield 62794-9638, USA
Surgery 138:640-7; discussion 647-9. 2005..The OPRS is useful in tracking resident development throughout postgraduate training and offers a structured means of certifying operative skills... - The case of the entitled resident: a composite case study of a resident performance problem syndrome with interdisciplinary commentaryNicole K Roberts
Department of Medical Education, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, P O Box 19681, Springfield, IL 62794 9681, USA
Med Teach 34:1024-32. 2012..Residents with performance problems create substantial burden on programs and institutions. Understanding the nature and quality of performance problems can help in learning to address performance problems... - Have standardized patient examinations stood the test of time and experience?Reed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA
Teach Learn Med 16:215-22. 2004 - Patient-care-related telephone communication between general surgery residents and attending surgeonsRoy Phitayakorn
Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
J Am Coll Surg 206:742-50. 2008 - Addressing the new competencies for residents' surgical trainingGary L Dunnington
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62794 9638, USA
Acad Med 78:14-21. 2003..The program's benefits include time savings and the availability of validity data and norms to inform decision making on residents' and program progress... - Tracking development of clinical reasoning ability across five medical schools using a progress testReed G Williams
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, 62794 9622, USA
Acad Med 86:1148-54. 2011.... - Self-assessment in simulation-based surgical skills trainingJeannie Macdonald
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, PO Box 19638, Springfield, IL 62794 9638, USA
Am J Surg 185:319-22. 2003..Research has shown medical trainees are poor self-assessors. The purpose of this study was to examine trainees' ability to self-assess technical skills using a simulation-trainer... - Who are the surgery clerkship directors and what are their educational needs?Margaret L Boehler
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, P O Box 19655, Springfield 62794 9655, USA
Am J Surg 185:216-8. 2003..The purpose of this study was to develop a demographic profile and an educational needs assessment for surgery clerkship directors... - Biomedical knowledge, clinical cognition and diagnostic justification: a structural equation modelAnna T Cianciolo
Department of Medical Education, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA Academy of Scholarship in Education, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA
Med Educ 47:309-16. 2013..Assessing diagnostic justification, which requires students to make their thinking explicit, may promote the integration of analytic and non-analytic processing into diagnostic strategy... - Surgeon communication behaviors that lead patients to not recommend the surgeon to family members or friends: Analysis and impactRobert B McLafferty
Department of Surgery, Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, Springfield, Ill, USA
Surgery 140:616-22; discussion 622-4. 2006..Considering the ripple effect due to the number of a patient's FMoFs, surgeons should be aware of the significant impact of even occasional lapses in optimal communication behaviors... - Improving resident performance assessment data: numeric precision and narrative specificityJohn H Littlefield
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Academic Informatics Services, 78229 3900, USA
Acad Med 80:489-95. 2005..To evaluate the use of a systems approach for diagnosing performance assessment problems in surgery residencies, and intervene to improve the numeric precision of global rating scores and the behavioral specificity of narrative comments...