Should non-expert clinician examiners be used in objective structured assessment of communication skills among final year medical undergraduates?

Background: Adoption of the objective structured clinical examination may be hindered by shortages of clinicians within a specialty. Clinicians from other specialties should be considered as alternative, non-expert examiners.

Aims: We assessed the inter-rater agreement between expert and non-expert clinician examiners in an integrated objective structured clinical examination for final year medical undergraduates.

HIV prevention among travelers: why do men not use condoms when they engage in commercial sex overseas?

Objectives: We investigated factors associated with condom use among men patronizing female sex workers abroad and locally.

Study Design: We conducted a survey on 372 local men attending the only public sexually transmitted infections clinic in Singapore between 2001 and 2003.

Results: Condom use was higher among clients patronizing sex workers in Singapore than those patronizing sex workers abroad (87.

A comparative study of condom use and self-reported sexually transmitted infections between foreign Asian and local clients of sex workers in Singapore.

Objective: We conducted a survey to compare condom use and its associated factors between foreign Asian and local clients of female sex workers in Singapore.

Study: A survey was conducted between 2001 and 2002 on a random sample of 810 clients (677 foreign Asian workers and 133 locals) recruited from the streets and outside the brothels in Singapore.

Results: Foreign clients were more likely than locals to be inconsistent condom users with sex workers.