Many researchers and educators have identified self-assessment as a vital aspect of
professional self-regulation. 1, 2, 3 This rationale has been the expressed motivation for a large …

Context One of the core tasks assigned to clinical teachers is to enable students to sort through
a cluster of features presented by a patient and accurately assign a diagnostic label, with …

Context There is a growing literature on diagnostic errors. The consensus of this literature is
that most errors are cognitive and result from the application of one or more cognitive biases…

Context Although health sciences programmes continue to value non‐cognitive variables
such as interpersonal skills and professionalism, it is not clear that current admissions tools …

It is generally well accepted in health professional education that self‐assessment is a key
step in the continuing professional development cycle. While there has been increasing …

Self-appraisal has repeatedly been shown to be inadequate as a mechanism for performance
improvement. This has placed greater emphasis on understanding the processes through …

As the rapidity with which medical knowledge isgenerated and disseminated becomes
amplified,an increasing emphasis has been placed on theneed for physicians to develop the …

Electronic practice data are increasingly being used to provide feedback to encourage
practice improvement. However, evidence suggests that despite decades of experience, the …

Introduction In this paper we report on further tests of the validity of the multiple mini‐interview
(MMI) selection process, comparing MMI scores with those achieved on a national high‐…

Objective The Multiple Mini‐Interview (MMI) has previously been shown to have a positive
correlation with early medical school performance. Data have matured to allow comparison …