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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Purpose To determine how learners and physicians engaged in various structured
interventions to inform self-assessment, how they perceived and used self-assessment in …