The death of the long case?

摘要

The long case has been an essential tool in the assessment of clinical skills It evaluates performance with real patients and enables students to gather information and develop treatment plans under realistic conditions Problems have been found with the reproducibility of scores generated by the long casa The long case can be improved by increasing the number of encounters, examiners, or aspects of a competence assessed Organisations responsible for high stakes testing are increasingly abandoning the long case or using it only in combination with other forms of assessment.