Rachel Yudkowsky

Summary

Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Two perspectives on the indicators of quality in psychiatry residencies: program directors' and residents'
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Mmedical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Acad Med 77:57-64. 2002
  2. ncbi Developing an institution-based assessment of resident communication and interpersonal skills
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    UIC Clinical Performance Center, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Acad Med 81:1115-22. 2006
  3. ncbi Residents anticipating, eliciting and interpreting physical findings
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education MC 591, UIC-College of Medicine, 808 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Med Educ 40:1141-2. 2006
  4. ncbi Prior experiences associated with residents' scores on a communication and interpersonal skill OSCE
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, USA
    Patient Educ Couns 62:368-73. 2006
  5. ncbi Simpler standards for local performance examinations: the Yes/No Angoff and whole-test Ebel
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612 7309, USA
    Teach Learn Med 20:212-7. 2008
  6. ncbi Ensuring medical student competency in basic procedural skills
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Med Educ 39:515-6. 2005
  7. ncbi Beyond fulfilling the core competencies: an objective structured clinical examination to assess communication and interpersonal skills in a surgical residency
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Curr Surg 61:499-503. 2004
  8. ncbi Setting standards for performance tests: a pilot study of a three-level Angoff method
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    UIC Department of Medical Education, 963 CME, 808 S Wood, MC 591, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Acad Med 83:S13-6. 2008
  9. ncbi Assessing the head-to-toe physical examination skills of medical students
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Med Teach 26:415-9. 2004
  10. ncbi A hypothesis-driven physical examination learning and assessment procedure for medical students: initial validity evidence
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 50612, USA
    Med Educ 43:729-40. 2009

Detail Information

Publications26

  1. ncbi Two perspectives on the indicators of quality in psychiatry residencies: program directors' and residents'
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Mmedical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Acad Med 77:57-64. 2002
    ..To determine whether psychiatry program directors and residents agree on the characteristics most important in determining the quality of a residency program...
  2. ncbi Developing an institution-based assessment of resident communication and interpersonal skills
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    UIC Clinical Performance Center, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Acad Med 81:1115-22. 2006
    ..The authors describe the development and validation of an institution-wide, cross-specialty assessment of residents' communication and interpersonal skills, including related components of patient care and professionalism...
  3. ncbi Residents anticipating, eliciting and interpreting physical findings
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education MC 591, UIC-College of Medicine, 808 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Med Educ 40:1141-2. 2006
  4. ncbi Prior experiences associated with residents' scores on a communication and interpersonal skill OSCE
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, USA
    Patient Educ Couns 62:368-73. 2006
    ..This exploratory study investigated whether prior task experience and comfort correlate with scores on an assessment of patient-centered communication...
  5. ncbi Simpler standards for local performance examinations: the Yes/No Angoff and whole-test Ebel
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612 7309, USA
    Teach Learn Med 20:212-7. 2008
    ..The whole-test Ebel and Yes/No Angoff methods offer the possibility of faster and easier standard-setting exercises for local, medium-stakes performance exams...
  6. ncbi Ensuring medical student competency in basic procedural skills
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Med Educ 39:515-6. 2005
  7. ncbi Beyond fulfilling the core competencies: an objective structured clinical examination to assess communication and interpersonal skills in a surgical residency
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Curr Surg 61:499-503. 2004
    ..We report our institution's experience using a series of standardized patient encounters in an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) to evaluate CIS in surgical residents...
  8. ncbi Setting standards for performance tests: a pilot study of a three-level Angoff method
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    UIC Department of Medical Education, 963 CME, 808 S Wood, MC 591, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Acad Med 83:S13-6. 2008
    ..This study piloted a three-level Angoff in which items were assigned to "Yes," "No," or "Maybe" categories...
  9. ncbi Assessing the head-to-toe physical examination skills of medical students
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Med Teach 26:415-9. 2004
    ..Patient instructors can be trained to acceptable accuracy and reliability despite the length and complexity of the exercise, and can provide effective feedback and teaching targeted to individual student deficiencies...
  10. ncbi A hypothesis-driven physical examination learning and assessment procedure for medical students: initial validity evidence
    Rachel Yudkowsky
    Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 50612, USA
    Med Educ 43:729-40. 2009
    ..A hypothesis-driven PE (HDPE) learning and assessment procedure was developed to provide targeted practice and assessment in anticipating, eliciting and interpreting critical aspects of the PE in the context of diagnostic challenges...
  11. ncbi Contextual errors and failures in individualizing patient care: a multicenter study
    Saul J Weiner
    Veterans Affairs Center for the Management of Complex Chronic Care, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois 60612 7324, Chicago, USA
    Ann Intern Med 153:69-75. 2010
    ..In contrast to biomedical errors, which are not patient-specific, contextual errors represent a failure to individualize care...
  12. ncbi Quality control of an OSCE using generalizability theory and many-faceted Rasch measurement
    Cherdsak Iramaneerat
    Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
    Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 13:479-93. 2008
    ..We concluded that generalizability and MFRM analyses provided useful complementary information for monitoring and improving the quality of an OSCE...
  13. ncbi Evaluating physician performance at individualizing care: a pilot study tracking contextual errors in medical decision making
    Saul J Weiner
    Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Med Decis Making 27:726-34. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to develop and test a methodology for measuring physicians' performance at contextualizing care and compare it to their performance at planning biomedically appropriate care...
  14. ncbi Toward meaningful evaluation of clinical competence: the role of direct observation in clerkship ratings
    Memoona Hasnain
    Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612, USA
    Acad Med 79:S21-4. 2004
    ..The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of direct observation on reliability and validity evidence for family medicine clerkship ratings of clinical performance...
  15. ncbi Rater errors in a clinical skills assessment of medical students
    Cherdsak Iramaneerat
    University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
    Eval Health Prof 30:266-83. 2007
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  16. ncbi Uncharted territory: measuring costs of diagnostic errors outside the medical record
    Alan Schwartz
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois, 808 S Wood St, 986 CME Mail Code 591, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    BMJ Qual Saf 21:918-24. 2012
    ..They can also discern which errors can be identified exclusively from a review of the medical records...
  17. ncbi Unannounced standardized patient assessment of the roter interaction analysis system: the challenge of measuring patient-centered communication
    Saul J Weiner
    University of Illinois at Chicago, 105 CMW MC 784, 1853 W Polk St, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 28:254-60. 2013
    ..If PCC measures do not capture elements of the interaction that determine whether the resulting care plan is patient-centered, they will confound efforts to link PCC to outcomes...
  18. ncbi Validity evidence for an OSCE to assess competency in systems-based practice and practice-based learning and improvement: a preliminary investigation
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Acad Med 83:775-80. 2008
    ..To determine the psychometric properties and validity of an OSCE to assess the competencies of Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI) and Systems-Based Practice (SBP) in graduate medical education...
  19. ncbi Procedures for establishing defensible absolute passing scores on performance examinations in health professions education
    Steven M Downing
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612 7309, USA
    Teach Learn Med 18:50-7. 2006
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  20. ncbi Validity evidence for a new checklist evaluating consultations, the 5Cs model
    Chad S Kessler
    Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Acad Med 87:1408-12. 2012
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  21. ncbi Microteaching and standardized students support faculty development for clinical teaching
    Mark H Gelula
    Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, 60612 7309, USA
    Acad Med 77:941. 2002
    ..A program was developed that supports these four activities and includes clinical faculty from medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy...
  22. ncbi Using standardised students in faculty development workshops to improve clinical teaching skills
    Mark H Gelula
    Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612, USA
    Med Educ 37:621-9. 2003
    ..Standardised students are actual health professions students who are trained to portray a prototypical teaching challenge consistently across many encounters with different faculty participants...
  23. ncbi A prospective, randomized, controlled study demonstrating a novel, effective model of transfer of care between physicians: the 5 Cs of consultation
    Chad S Kessler
    Departments of Emergency Medicine, Jesse Brown VA Hospital, and University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 19:968-74. 2012
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  24. ncbi Perceptions of effective and ineffective nurse-physician communication in hospitals
    F Patrick Robinson
    Chamberlain College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA
    Nurs Forum 45:206-16. 2010
    ..The purpose of this study was to explore nurse and physician perceptions of effective and ineffective communication between the two professions...
  25. ncbi The qualities and skills of exemplary pediatric hospitalist educators: a qualitative study
    H Barrett Fromme
    Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
    Acad Med 85:1905-13. 2010
    ..To identify the qualities and skills of exemplary and ideal pediatric hospitalist educators...
  26. ncbi Patient-care-related telephone communication between general surgery residents and attending surgeons
    Roy Phitayakorn
    Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    J Am Coll Surg 206:742-50. 2008