Publications by authors named "T Kropmans"
Introduction: Feedback is an essential component of medical education, enhancing the quality of students' knowledge and skills. However, providing effective feedback, particularly in clinical skills assessments like Objective Structured Clinical Examinations [OSCEs], often poses challenges. This study aimed to evaluate the content of OSCE feedback given to undergraduate medical students over five years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a valid tool to assess the clinical skills of medical students. Feedback after OSCE is essential for student improvement and safe clinical practice. Many examiners do not provide helpful or insightful feedback in the text space provided after OSCE stations, which may adversely affect learning outcomes.
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- - The article discusses the lack of research on medical students' cognitive abilities regarding diagnosis and therapy, particularly focusing on Situation Awareness (SA) and its role in medical education evaluation using Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).
- - A study was conducted where four independent researchers analyzed six random OSCE forms to evaluate the identification and categorization of SA elements, finding moderate to very good agreement among raters.
- - The use of Generalisability Theory identified key factors affecting discrepancies in evaluation, highlighting the need for further research to enhance SA assessment within medical training programs.
Background: The reliability of clinical assessments is known to vary considerably with inter-rater reliability a key contributor. Many of the mechanisms that contribute to inter-rater reliability however remain largely unexplained and unclear. While research in other fields suggests personality of raters can impact ratings, studies looking at personality factors in clinical assessments are few.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic lower back pain (CLBP) is a major health care burden and often results in workplace absenteeism. It is a priority for appropriate management of CLBP to get individuals back to work as early as possible. Interventions informed by the flags approach, which integrates cognitive and behavioral approaches via identification of biopsychosocial barriers to recovery, have resulted in reduced pain-related work absences and increased return to work for individuals with CLBP.
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