Munder Zagaar, Peter J Boedeker, Sherita J Love
PharmaCORE: Optimizing medical pharmacology education with an innovative instructional dashboard
Medical teacher
healthcare professionals require many personal attributes addition cognitive abilities psychomotor skills competent practice multiple mini interviews employed globally assess personality attributes candidates selection health professions education level entry attributes namely communication skills critical thinking honesty responsibility health advocacy empathy sanctity life considering high stakes involved students faculty institutions society rigorous quality assurance mechanisms similar used student assessment must employed student selection throughout continuum medical education difficult undertaking psychological constructs difficult define measure though considered yield reliable valid scores studies providing multiple evidences internal structure especially dimensionality multiple miniinterviews sparse giving rise questions measuring single multiple constructs even measuring purported measuring main objective provide statistical support multidimensional nature multiple mini interviews hypothesized apriori cfa another objective provide multiple evidences internal structure study highlights link content internal structure evidences constructs thus establishing multiple mini interviews measure intended measure securing permission institutional review board apriori seven factormodel hypothesized based attributes considered essential graduating student institution operationally defining attributes extensive literature search scenarios constructed assess 5point rating scale used rate item station total 259 students participated multiple mini interviews period three days training workshop arranged participating faculty reliability coefficient using cronbachs alpha calculated range 073 094 standard error measurement ranged 080 to164 item stationtotal correlation ranged 043050 075083 interstation correlation also determined confirmatory factor analysis endorsed results exploratory factor analysis study revealing seven model fit multiple indices goodnessoffit statistics root mean square error approximation rmsea value 005 standardized root mean square residual srmr value less 008 indices showed model fit good confirmatory factor analysis confirmed multidimensional nature mmis also confirmed stations measured attributes supposed measure study adds validity evidence multiple miniinterviews selection candidates required personality traits healthcare profession provides evidence multidimensional structure multiple mini interviews administered multiple evidences internal structure demonstrates independence different constructs measured