Does observation add to the validity of the long case?

Background A London medical school final MBBS examination for 155 candidates. Objective To investigate whether observing the student-patient interaction in a history taking (HT) long case adds incremental information to the traditional presentation component. Design A prospective study of a HT long...

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Publicado en:Medical Education Vol. 35; no. 8; pp. 729 - 735
Autores principales: Wass V, Jolly B
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2001
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          Clinical Competence
          Educational Measurement
          Patient History Taking Methods
          Education, Medical
          Observational Methods
          Professional-Patient Relations
          Prospective Studies
          Regression
          Reproducibility of Results
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      ab: Background A London medical school final MBBS examination for 155 candidates. Objective To investigate whether observing the student-patient interaction in a history taking (HT) long case adds incremental information to the traditional presentation component. Design A prospective study of a HT long case which included both examiner observation of the student-patient interview (Part 1) and traditional presentation to different examiners (Part 2). Checklist and global ratings of both parts were compared. Examiners were paired to estimate inter-rater reliability. The students also took a 20 station Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Outcome measures Correlation of (I) examiner ratings for observation and presentation of the HT long case (II) examiner pair ratings and (III) stepwise regression analysis of scores for the HT long case with OSCE scores. Results Seventy-five (48·4%) candidates had two examiner pairs marking their case history. Observation and presentation scores correlated poorly (checklist 0·38 and global 0·33). Checklist and global scores for each part correlated at higher levels (observation 0·64 and presentation 0·61). Inter-rater reliability correlations were higher for observation (checklist 0·72 and global 0·71) than for presentation (checklist 0·38 and global 0·60). When HT long case scores were correlated with OSCE scores, using stepwise regression, global presentation scores showed the highest correlation with the OSCE score (0·36) and the global observation score contributed a further 12% to the correlation (0·50). Conclusion Observation of history taking in a long case appears to measure a useful and distinct component of clinical competence over and above the contribution made by the presentation.
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