The reliability of a modified Kalamazoo Consensus Statement Checklist for assessing the communication skills of multidisciplinary clinicians in the simulated environment

Assessing Competences in Medical Students with a Newly Designed 360- Degree Examination of a Simulated First Day of Residency: A Feasibility Study

“…After each consultation, the participants filled out a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) on their self-assessed quality of the historytaking while the simulated patients assessed the participants' consultation and relational empathy after every encounter with the CARE questionnaire [22]. After the last conversation with a simulated patient, every participant and every simulated patient completed a Gap-Kalamazoo Communication Skills Assessment Form (GAKCSA) [23] During the patient management phase, participants completed a Post-Encounter Form (modified according to Durning et al [24]) for each simulated patient. Meanwhile the supervisors filled out a Form for Facets of Competence (FOC, modified according to [11]) for their assessment of the participants' management of every patient and documented every telephone encounter with a participant in a logbook.…”

Development of a Brazilian Portuguese adapted version of the Gap-Kalamazoo communication skills assessment form Development of a Brazilian Portuguese adapted version of the Gap-Kalamazoo communication skills assessment form

“…The GKCSAF is based on the Kalamazoo Consensus Statement 12 , 15 and was modified by Calhoun, Rider and colleagues to enhance the scope of competencies assessed 10 , 11 , 13 . The original version was validated for simulation-based environments in the domains of content, response process and internal structure 10 - 13 .…”

“…While many assessment tools exist for this purpose, the Gap-Kalamazoo Communication Skills Assessment Form (GKCSAF) has shown particular promise, and has been extensively piloted at Harvard Medical School’s Program to Enhance Relational and Communications Skills (PERCS) and the University of Louisville’s Program for the Approach to Complex Encounters (PACE) 9 - 13 . The GKCSAF is an assessment tool designed to assess the gaps between self-assessment, faculty or peer assessment, and parent/family assessment during simulated difficult encounters in pediatrics.…”

“…This tool contains the items of the Kalamazoo Essential Elements Communication Checklist 12 with two additional components assessing empathy and communication of accurate information, and allows for the calculation of a “gap analysis” that yields quantitative insight regarding learner self-appraisal. The tool has shown great value when applied in communication-focused simulation-based educational environments that encourage self-insight and constructive group discussions 10 , 11 , 13 , 14 …”

Development of a Comprehensive Communication Skills Curriculum for Pediatrics Residents

“…Next, residents received annual OCE evaluations using the Gap-Kalamazoo Communications Skills Assessment Form. 3,36 Finally, residents were assessed biannually by the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC), an 18-member multidisciplinary cohort of faculty physicians that reviews rotation-specific evaluations to generate competency scores in accordance with the Pediatrics Milestone Project. 35 The Pediatrics Milestones include interpersonal and communication skills (ICS-1 and ICS-2; TABLE 1), which were assessed for change over the course of training.…”