Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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To develop, implement, and evaluate a new course curriculum designed to increase senior medical students' knowledge, psychomotor skills, interpretative abilities, and clinical utility regarding physical examination techniques. ⋯ Both the OSCE results and the students' self-assessments indicate that the pilot curriculum for the APD course improved the students' physical examination skills. The curriculum can be expanded and also exported to other institutions. Such a course may help promote and refine the use of physical diagnosis in the delivery of quality, timely, and cost-efficient health care.
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To investigate the validity of the certification process of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Specifically, does board certification in anesthesiology identify physicians judged to be clinically superior by evaluators who are not part of the certification process? ⋯ These data support validity for certification in anesthesiology and identify characteristics considered necessary for high-quality practice of the specialty.