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Conference Proceedings
Evaluating Residents for Board Certification
Evaluation of Non-cognitive Skills and Clinical Performance
Health Policy Issues Affecting Graduate Medical Education
How to Evaluate Residents
Re-certification for Medical Specialists
Re-certification: New Evaluation Methods and Strategies
The Ecology of Graduate Medical Education: Improving the Quality of Residency Programs
The Residency Director's Role in Specialty Certification
Trends in Specialization: Tomorrow's Medicine
Oral Examination in Medical Specialty Board Certification
 
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Evaluating Residents for Board Certification
 
This book captures the 1998 conference proceedings which focused on a review of the evaluation methods used in residency training programs and identifying what works and what needs improvement. Also discussed were potential alternative assessment methods in development. (1998)
Price: $29.95
 
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Evaluation of Non-cognitive Skills and Clinical Performance
 
This book contains the proceedings of a conference on evaluation held in September 1981. The purpose of the conference was to describe some existing methods for the evaluation of non-cognitive skills and clinical performance. (1982)
Price: $29.95
 
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Health Policy Issues Affecting Graduate Medical Education
 
This publication focuses on how federal and state policy initiatives regarding healthcare have an impact on graduate medical education. (1992)
Price: $29.95
 
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How to Evaluate Residents
 
Program directors and faculty will find this book a practical resource for their residency programs. The book introduces a model resident evaluation system, followed by chapters explaining various aspects of that system. Chapters deal with topics such as the multiple requirements for evaluating residents in different specialties; evaluating cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills; evaluating clinical effectiveness and efficiency; setting standards and arriving at a decision; providing feedback and remediation or termination; documentation; and record keeping and legal issues. (1986)
Price: $29.95
 
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Re-certification for Medical Specialists
 
This book is based on the third ABMS conference on re-certification (prior conferences were given in 1974 and 1978). It reviews the history and present status of re-certification and describes the approaches taken by many of the ABMS Member Boards to accomplish re-certification. (1987)
Price: $29.95
 
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Re-certification: New Evaluation Methods and Strategies
 
The book reports the proceedings of a two-part conference held September 18, 1992, and March 19, 1993, on the topic "The Ecology of Graduate Medical Education." The conference was a benchmark event with experts in graduate medical education across all specialties deliberating on how to improve the environment of graduate medical education. Participants proposed twenty ecological principles for reforming the environment of residency education which are linked to the General Essentials used by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). (1994)
Price: $29.95
 
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The Ecology of Graduate Medical Education: Improving the Quality of Residency Programs
 
This book discusses how the quality of the residency ecosystem has a significant influence on opportunities for residents to learn and become competent physicians. (1993)
Price: $29.95
 
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The Residency Director's Role in Specialty Certification
 
This book describes the complex issues surrounding the relationship between residency program directors and specialty boards. The book contains the results of surveys of specialty boards and program directors, outlines problems in evaluating medical and surgical residents and makes suggestions on evaluating residents for specialty boards. (1985)
Price: $29.95
 
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Trends in Specialization: Tomorrow's Medicine
 
This publication identifies the continuing pressure for new subspecialties, the inherent problems with recognition of them, and directions for the future. (1985)
Price: $29.95
 
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Oral Examination in Medical Specialty Board Certification
 
This book is details the discussions of a conference held September 1982 entitled "Oral Examinations in Medical Specialty Board Certification." This publication examines potential areas for improving oral examinations. (1983)
Price: $29.95