Amit Garg, Katie Biello, Joyce W Hoot, Shalini B Reddy, Lindsay Wilson, Paul George, Leslie Robinson-Bostom, Leah Belazarian, Erik Domingues, Jennifer Powers, Reza Jacob, Michael Powers, Justin Besen, Alan C Geller
BACKGROUND: Assessing medical students on core skills related to melanoma detection is challenging in the absence of a well-developed instrument. OBJECTIVE: We sought to develop an objective structured clinical examination for the detection and evaluation of melanoma among medical students. METHODS: This was a prospective cohort analysis of student and objective rater agreement on performance of clinical skills and assessment of differences in performance across 3 schools...
December 2015: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology