Costs and assessment in medical education: a strategic view

Perspectives on Medical Education

Kieran Walsh¹ 

[1]BMJ Publishing Group

关键词: Bone marrow necrosis;    Sickle cell disease;    Hyperhemolysis syndrome;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s40037-016-0299-8

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum B.V.

【 摘 要 】

Van der Vleuten and Heeneman have added another important piece to the emerging jigsaw that will eventually show us the full picture of cost in healthcare professional education [1]. Their idea of redistributing the resources of assessment in a curriculum is an attractive one. Their suggestion that we concentrate more on progress testing could make a real difference in how we allocate funding to different forms of assessment. Perhaps more importantly it could also make a real difference to the outcomes that we can achieve by means of assessment for a given cost. Inevitably there are gaps in their approach. Their estimates of costs are in their own words ‘rough’ and there is also limited data. However, the main strength of their approach is that they bring much needed radical thinking to the area of cost in assessment. In this short commentary I will try to articulate some more radical thinking in this field.

【 授权许可】

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