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Clinical skills evaluation of trainees in a neurology department

Wiles, C., Dawson, K., Hughes, T., Llewelyn, J., Morris, Huw, Pickersgill, T., Robertson, Neil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5409-4909 and Smith, Philip E. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4250-2562 2007. Clinical skills evaluation of trainees in a neurology department. Clinical Medicine 7 (4) , pp. 365-369. 10.7861/clinmedicine.7-4-365

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Abstract

Three to 12 evaluations of clinical performance using the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (Mini-CEX) (n = 124) or direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS) (n = 21) were performed on 27 trainees working in an NHS neurology department. The communications/ counselling skills subdomain was scored in 64 evaluations. For Mini-CEX the focus was on gathering data (22%), diagnosis (31%), management (34%) and counselling (7%) (focus not recorded in 6%). For DOPS, lumbar puncture was the most common evaluated procedure (57%). Mini-CEX evaluations lasted 23.8 minutes (10.6) (mean, sd) and DOPS 25.9 minutes (12.6). Mini-CEX scores for overall competence and communication skills were mean 5.99 (sd 0.95, range 4-8) and 5.98 (sd 1.21, range 3-9) and for DOPS 5.71 (sd 0.90, range 4-8) both on scales of 1 to 9. Overall trainee competence and communication scores increased with year of training (p < 0.001, p < 0.004 univariate analysis). Assessors undertook up to three or four assessments in a session. Assessors and trainees considered that the observation and feedback had been 'very' or 'quite' useful in providing a relevant element of assessment. These assessments were feasible and useful in a neurology department and provided some evidence for increasing performance with trainee seniority. More assessor time (approximately one hour) than trainee time (24-26 min) was needed for each assessment undertaken.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Medicine
Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
ISSN: 1470-2118
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2022 09:57
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/83018

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