Abstract:Objectives
To assess the inter-rater reliability of standardized patients (SPs) as they assess the clinical skills of medical students and to detect possible rating bias in SPs.
Methods
The ratings received by 6 students examined in 4 clinical stations by 13 SPs were examined. Each SP contributed at least 3 and at most 10 pairwise ratings, with an average of approximately 5 ratings per SP. The standard Cohen’ kappa statistic was calculated and the distribution of scores among SPs was compared via both ANOVA … Show more
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