Biomedical subjects

G C Sisler

Publications and source records attributed to G C Sisler.

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PubMed1986

The clinical oral examination in psychiatry: association between subscoring and global marks.

Fifteen academic psychiatrists rated a videotaped clinical oral examination done in the Royal College format. In addition to assigning an overall mark, the raters completed a detailed scoring form. The ratings of the case presentation and discussion accounted for most of the variance in the overall mark. The rating of the interview difficulty and establishment of rapport were weaker predictors. Implication of these findings for the trainees and the examiners are discussed.

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PubMed1984

A study of the reliability of the clinical oral examination in psychiatry.

A study of the variability between raters in scoring an oral clinical examination in psychiatry in the format of the certification by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada is reported. A video-taped examination from another centre was rated independently by academic psychiatrists, nonacademic psychiatrists and residents. Considerable inter-rater differences between and within these groups were found. In particular, the averaging of the marks of pairs of raters as occurs in the actual certification resulted in the outcome depending to a considerable degree on the chance pairings of raters. These findings support a number of previous studies and emphasize the need to train examiners and to develop clearer rating criteria.

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PubMed1974