Citation

Shayne P, Gallahue F, Rinnert S, Anderson CL, Hern G, Katz E. Acad. Emerg. Med. 2006; 13(7): 727-732.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1197/j.aem.2006.01.030

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: A Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors task force developed the Standardized Direct Observation Assessment Tool (SDOT), a 26‐item checklist assessment tool to evaluate Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education resident core competencies by direct observation. Each of the checklist items is assigned to one or more of five core competencies. The objective of this study was to test the interrater measurement properties of the SDOT instrument.
Methods: Two videos of simulated patient-resident-attending physician encounters were produced. Academic emergency medicine faculty members not involved in the development of the form viewed the two encounters and completed the SDOT for each. Faculty demographic data were collected. Data were collected from 82 faculty members at 16 emergency medicine residency programs. The checklist …

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