Broadly sampled assessment reduces ethnicity-related differences in clinical grades.

Context: Ethnicity-related differences in clinical grades exist. Broad sampling in assessment of clinical competencies involves multiple assessments used by multiple assessors across multiple moments. Broad sampling in assessment potentially reduces irrelevant variances and may therefore mitigate ethnic disparities in clinical grades.

MUM effect in medical education: taking into account the recipient and training setting.

de Leng et al. argue that feedback communicators can be made more comfortable delivering unpleasant messages if clinical training settings promote trainees’ learning‐goal orientation.

Influence of response instructions and response format on applicant perceptions of a situational judgement test for medical school selection.

Background: This study examined the influence of two Situational Judgement Test (SJT) design features (response instructions and response format) on applicant perceptions. Additionally, we investigated demographic subgroup differences in applicant perceptions of an SJT.

Methods: Medical school applicants (N = 372) responded to an online survey on applicant perceptions, including a description and two example items of an SJT.

Sex difference in cold perception and shivering onset upon gradual cold exposure.

To maintain a thermal balance when experiencing cold, humans reduce heat loss and enhance heat production. A potent and rapid mechanism for heat generation is shivering. Research has shown that women prefer a warmer environment and feel less comfortable than men in the same thermal condition.