The document discusses the Mini Clinical Examination (Mini-CEX) which is used to directly observe and assess medical students' clinical skills such as history taking and physical examination. The Mini-CEX focuses on core skills demonstrated during short patient encounters. It is designed to enhance assessment, promote education, and provide an effective evaluation tool by allowing students to be observed interacting with patients in different settings and evaluated by various faculty members. The Mini-CEX evaluates competencies including medical interviewing, physical examination, clinical judgment, and professionalism using a standardized form and scale.
The document discusses the Mini Clinical Examination (Mini-CEX) which is used to directly observe and assess medical students' clinical skills such as history taking and physical examination. The Mini-CEX focuses on core skills demonstrated during short patient encounters. It is designed to enhance assessment, promote education, and provide an effective evaluation tool by allowing students to be observed interacting with patients in different settings and evaluated by various faculty members. The Mini-CEX evaluates competencies including medical interviewing, physical examination, clinical judgment, and professionalism using a standardized form and scale.
The document discusses the Mini Clinical Examination (Mini-CEX) which is used to directly observe and assess medical students' clinical skills such as history taking and physical examination. The Mini-CEX focuses on core skills demonstrated during short patient encounters. It is designed to enhance assessment, promote education, and provide an effective evaluation tool by allowing students to be observed interacting with patients in different settings and evaluated by various faculty members. The Mini-CEX evaluates competencies including medical interviewing, physical examination, clinical judgment, and professionalism using a standardized form and scale.
The document discusses the Mini Clinical Examination (Mini-CEX) which is used to directly observe and assess medical students' clinical skills such as history taking and physical examination. The Mini-CEX focuses on core skills demonstrated during short patient encounters. It is designed to enhance assessment, promote education, and provide an effective evaluation tool by allowing students to be observed interacting with patients in different settings and evaluated by various faculty members. The Mini-CEX evaluates competencies including medical interviewing, physical examination, clinical judgment, and professionalism using a standardized form and scale.
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Mini Clinical Examination
(Mini-CEX) Workshops on Clinical Teaching and Assessment Clerkship program Medical School of Universitas Padjadjaran
Background Direct observation of residents clinical skill by faculty is essential to ensure that students have achieved a satisfactory level of competence to practice independently Medical students are rarely observed by attending physicians performing history & physical examination in realistic clinical encounters
ABIM developed and validated the clinical
exercise (CEX) as a method of assessing students history taking and physical examination skills
The Mini-CEX assessment method is intended
to promote and facilitate the direct observation of history taking, physical examination and counseling skills
What is the mini-CEX?
Mini-CEXs focus on the core skills that medical students demonstrate in patient encounters Mini-CEX was designed as short, easy form to use in focused first-time or follow-up encounters in any clinical setting It is used with medical students to augment the feedback they receive from their attending regarding their clinical skills
Why are Mini-CEXs valued?
Mini-CEXs are designed to enhance assessment, promote education and provide an effective evaluation tool The advantages the opportunity for medical students to be : - observed interacting with a broad range of patients in a variety settings - evaluated by number of different faculty members
What is needed ? A snapshot clinical performance, optimally taking between 15-20 minutes To provide valid, reliable measures of performance, interaction is needed with - a range different patients - in a variety setting
into the core internal medicine clerkship in 1999 Each student is instructed to complete the mini-CEX during the first half of clerkship, spending 15-20 minutes on the encounter and 15 minutes on feedback After the clinical encounter, the student immediately presents an assessment and plan, and the attending gives feedback
The attending evaluates the students history and
physical examination, clinical judgment, humanism, and overall clinical competence as a student, using the standardized mini-CEX form The form uses a standardized nine-point scale : - 1-3 (unsatisfactory) - 4 (marginal) - 4-6 (satisfactory) - 7-9 (superior)
Conclusion : The benefits of the mini-CEX : - skills are evaluated in a short time - the students will receive a feedback - could be used for observing the student at the bedside, hear the students assessment - low cost
