Standardized patient and standardized interdisciplinary team meeting: Validation of a new performance-based assessment tool

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Abstract

The interdisciplinary team (IDT) approach is critical in the care of elderly adults. Performance-based tools to assess IDT skills have not been well validated. A novel assessment tool, the standardized patient (SP) and standardized interdisciplinary team meeting (SIDTM), consisting of two stations, was developed. First, trainees evaluate a SP hospitalized after a fall. Second, trainees play the role of the physician in a standardized IDT meeting with a standardized registered nurse (SRN) and standardized medical social worker (SMSW) for discharge planning. The SP-SIDTM was administered to 52 fourth-year medical students (MS4s) and six geriatric medicine fellows (GMFs) in 2011/12. The SP, SRN, and SMSW scored trainee performance on dichotomous checklists of clinical tasks and Likert scales of communication skills, which were compared according to level of training using t-tests. Trainees rated the SP-SIDTM experience as moderately difficult, length of time about right, and believability moderate to high. Reliability was high for both cases (Cronbach α = 0.73-0.87). Interobserver correlation between SRN and SMSW checklist scores (correlation coefficient (r) = 0.82, P

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Yuasa, M., Nagoshi, M., Oshiro-Wong, C., Tin, M., Wen, A., & Masaki, K. (2014). Standardized patient and standardized interdisciplinary team meeting: Validation of a new performance-based assessment tool. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 62(1), 171–174. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.12604

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