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PubMed1986

Evaluating the cancer education program: examining a range of approaches.

The objectives of this article are to provide people who are responsible for cancer education programs with a broadened perspective of the rich array of evaluation strategies available and responsive to the evaluation needs of cancer education programs, and to summarize selected literature resources useful for the development of an evaluation plan. This article reviews limitations found in previous evaluations of medical education programs and provides a descriptive survey of diverse strategies for the evaluation of cancer education programs. The characteristics, requirements, utility, audience, constraints, and resources are presented. Two cancer related case studies are discussed in detail as illustrations of the diversity of strategies available to evaluate cancer education programs.

Evaluation Studies as Topic↗

PubMed1977

Toward a comprehensive methodology for resident evaluation.

The development of a useful system of medical resident evaluation over a two year period demonstrated that traditional measures used successfully in undergraduate medical education were less appropriate and acceptable than more complex measures designed to assess actual clinical performance. The greater cost, time involvement and personnel required by the more complex measures were shown to be partially offset by the greater utility and acceptability of the evaluative data provides. The feasibility of using skilled, non-medically trained personnel to minimize faculty-physician time was demonstrated.

Clinical Competence↗