Assessing Medical Competence

Evaluating Medical Decision-Making …

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2018/0701/p40.html

Patients must be able to (1) demonstrate understanding of the benefits and risks of, and the alternatives to, a proposed treatment or intervention (including no treatment); (2) …

Defining Patient Competence for Medical Decision Making

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(16)33698-4/fulltext

Assessment of Patients' Competence to …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcp074045

Notwithstanding the importance of the assessment of patients' competence by physicians and the incidence of impaired capacity …

Assessment of decision-making capacity in adults

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A skillful capacity assessment can also help determine the severity of a patient's cognitive impairments and improve the effectiveness of conversations …

9 principles to guide physician competence assessment …

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The goal of screening and assessment is to optimize physician competence and performance through education, remediation and modifications to …

Defining and assessing professional competence - PubMed

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Data synthesis: We generated an inclusive definition of competence: the habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical …

Measuring competence in healthcare learners and …

https://journals.lww.com/jbisrir/fulltext/2014/12030/measuring_competence_in_healthcare_learners_and.3.aspx

Establishing the effectiveness of the health professional education process is complex and requires a multifaceted approach to assess the outcomes. 1 Typically, outcomes are …

Assessment of patient competence for making decisions

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The procedure is based on 5 steps: 1) recognising the conditions that require a competence assessment; 2) fully evaluating the competence; 3) correlating the degree of …

How Do I Determine if My Patient has …

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/124731/how-do-i-determine-if-my-patient-has-decision-making-capacity

KEY POINTS. Competency is a global assessment and legal determination made by a judge in court. Capacity is a functional assessment and a clinical determination about a specific …

(PDF) Guidelines for assessing clinical …

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Abstract Medical organizations responsible for assessing the clinical competence of large numbers of examinees have traditionally used written, oral, and observation‐based …