Assessment of Emergency Medicine Residents' Clinical Reasoning: Validation of a Script Concordance Test.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

A primary aim of residency training is to develop competence in clinical reasoning. However, there are few instruments that can accurately, reliably, and efficiently assess residents' clinical decision-making ability. This study aimed to externally validate the script concordance test in emergency medicine (SCT-EM), an assessment tool designed for this purpose.

Methods

Using established methodology for the SCT-EM, we compared EM residents' performance on the SCT-EM to an expert panel of emergency physicians at three urban academic centers. We performed adjusted pairwise t-tests to compare differences between all residents and attending physicians, as well as among resident postgraduate year (PGY) levels. We tested correlation between SCT-EM and Accreditation Cou

SUBMITTER: Steinberg E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7390545 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature