Clinical Assessment Tools: Patient Management Problems

Patient Management Problems are a tool used to assess the competency of student learners coming from a clinical setting. These problems are administered in a written form and usually follow the following formula:


 * These are usually incorporated into;


 * multiple choice questions
 * essays


 * oral examinations


 * used to test factual recall and applied knowledge,
 * More sophisticated methods are needed to assess clinical performance, including directly observed long and short cases, objective structured clinical examinations, and the use of standardised patients

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