Workplace-based assessments in psychiatric training

• Other Authors: Bhugra, Dinesh (Editor), Malik, Amit (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
• Series: Cambridge medicine
• Subjects: Psychiatry > education; Educational Measurement > methods; Internship and Residency > standards; Education, Medical, Graduate > standards; Competency-Based Education > standards
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"In psychiatry, as in many other medical disciplines, training is shifting from an emphasis on testing factual knowledge towards a system based on continuing assessment and the acquisition of practical skills and competencies. Workplace Based Assessments in Psychiatric Training describes curren...

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• Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Workplace based assessments in psychiatry: setting the scene Amit Malik and Dinesh Bhugra; 2. Methods of workplace based assessments: an overview Amit Malik and Dinesh Bhugra; 3. Assessing the patient perspective Jim Crossley; 4. Experience of WPBA in the UK Andrew Brittlebank; 5. Assessing residents' competencies: challenges to delivery in the developing world: need for innovation and change Santosh Chaturvedi, Prabha Chandra and Jagadisha Tirthahalli; 6. In-training assessment: the Danish experience Charlotte Ringsted; 7. US experience of changing roles Richard Summers; 8. Assessment of psychiatric competence in the USA Joan Anzia and John Manring; 9. The Australian and New Zealand experience Christine Spratt, Philip Boyce and Mark Davies; 10. The Canadian experience Karen Saperson and Richard Swinson; 11. Workplace based assessment in psychotherapy: a Canadian experience Priyanthy Weerasekera; 12. Assessments and their utility: looking to the future Valerie Wass; Index.