Frederick Chen, Helen Burstin, & Jane Huntington.
Medical Education
April 2005, Vol. 39, Issue #4, pg. 350-355.
Review by: Linda Heun, Ph.D. <lheun@aacom.org>
The authors document the current call for outcomes research in medical education that is stimulated by evidence-based medicine, the quality movement, and demands for increased accountability. In spite of this call, they indicate that less than 1% of articles published in professional journals have measured clinical outcomes of patients and suggest that, as a result, federal financial support of medical education could be in jeopardy. A call to move from learner-oriented measures such as student satisfaction to patient-oriented clinical outcomes is made.
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