Effect of Perceived Level of Interaction on Faculty Evaluations of 3rd Year Medical Students.

Introduction: Several factors are known to affect the way clinical performance evaluations (CPEs) of medical students are completed by supervising physicians. We sought to explore the effect of faculty perceived "level of interaction" (LOI) on these evaluations.

Methods: Our third-year CPE requires evaluators to identify perceived LOI with each student as low, moderate, or high.

Practical Application of Assessment Principles in the Development of an Innovative Clinical Performance Evaluation in the Entrustable Professional Activity Era.

Educators have been challenged to create assessments that are competency-based and grounded in accepted standards such as the entrustable professional activities (EPAs). The clinical performance evaluation (CPE) is a commonly utilized assessment modality, which allows multiple evaluators to provide feedback on a learner's performance in the clinical workplace. In this paper, we describe the relevant principles that served as a guide as we developed a new CPE for medical students that fully incorporate EPAs.

Development and testing of performance measures for pharmacy services.

Objective: To report on the status of the pilot work of PQA, a pharmacy quality alliance, to develop and test performance metrics of pharmacy services for use in quality improvement, benchmarking, and pay-for-performance benchmarks.

Design: Observational cohort study.

Setting: Three health plans (commercial, Medicare and Medicaid) located in the northeastern United States and one nationwide prescription drug plan.