Publications by authors named "H Starks"
Article Synopsis
- - In medical education, self-assessments are often used to evaluate curricula, but their subjective nature leads to biases that can skew results and misrepresent learning achievement.
- - The review discusses three self-assessment designs (pre-post, now-then, post-only) and provides recommendations on how to choose the most suitable design to reduce biases based on specific educational objectives and available resources.
- - Educators are encouraged to be aware of the pitfalls in self-assessment practices and to consider additional methods, like control groups and follow-up surveys, to improve evaluation accuracy and rigor.
Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is often unsuspected by treating clinicians. Since the adoption of clinical prediction scores for PE and the widespread availability of computed tomography (CT)-pulmonary angiogram, there are few reports of clinical presentations of hospitalized patients who died of PE.
Objectives: To compare the clinical signs, symptoms, and comorbidities of hospitalized patients who died of PE for whom PE was suspected versus not suspected antemortem.
Introduction: Feedback is critical for resident growth and is most effective when the relationship between residents and attendings is collaborative, with shared expectations for the purpose, timing, and manner of communication for feedback. Within internal medicine, there is limited work exploring the resident and hospitalist perspectives on whether key elements are included in feedback sessions.
Methods: We surveyed internal medicine residents and supervising hospitalists at a large urban training program about their perspectives on four components of effective feedback: specificity,timeliness, respectful communication, and actionability.
Background: Black individuals in the U.S. and in our primary care clinic experience worse control of blood pressure compared to White individuals.
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