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Global Minimum Essential (Core) Requirements
Specification of the competencies related to knowledge, skills,
professional attitudes and ethical values which students should possess at
graduation, regardless of where they are trained. In medical education,
this is represented as a three-tiered structure with international,
national, and local layers, which reflects the competencies specific to
given settings and cultures where the physician will practice in addition
to universal competencies required by physicians throughout the world.
Global-Rating of Live or Recorded Performance Forms
Ratings by faculty supervisors to assess trainees' medical knowledge,
interpersonal and communication skills and patient care clinical skills
which are completed retrospectively and are based on general impressions
collected over a period of time. They are derived from multiple sources of
information such as direct observations or interactions, input from other
faculty, residents or patients; review of work products or written
materials. They differ from other rating forms in that a rater judges
general categories of ability and skills rather than specific skills,
tasks or behaviors. The rating forms contain scales used by the evaluator
to judge knowledge, skills, and behaviors listed on the form. Scoring
these forms entails combining numeric ratings with comments to obtain a
useful judgment about performance based upon more than one rater.
Reproducibility appears easier to achieve for ratings of knowledge and
more difficult to achieve for patient care and interpersonal and
communication skills. To improve reproducibility, the rater should be well
trained; otherwise the scores can be highly subjective and competencies
may be rated similarly regardless of performance.
Goal
A general aim, object or end-effect which one strives to achieve.
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
In the United States, this term typically refers to residency training and
fellowships; the education physicians receive after finishing medical
school. In many other countries it is called specialty training or
postgraduate education.
Graduate Training or Internship
The phase of acquiring widening clinical experience through the practice
of basic clinical skills and judgment. This is normally used to designate
the period of hospital clerkship. The periods of undergraduate education
and graduate training together comprise the doctor's basic medical
education.
Guidelines
A set of steps to be taken in performing a task or implementing a policy,
program or activities and the manner of doing so. Guidelines are more
specific and more detailed than guiding principles, on which they are
based.