All Outputs (13)

An evaluation of a public partnership project between academic institutions and young people with Black African, Asian and Caribbean heritage (2024)
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Background: This project (named Reinvent) aimed to promote Public Involvement (PI) in health research. Academics worked with a community group, the Eloquent Praise & Empowerment Dance Company, to develop a community partnership with young people from... Read More about An evaluation of a public partnership project between academic institutions and young people with Black African, Asian and Caribbean heritage.

Training healthcare professionals to be ready for practice in an era of social distancing: A realist evaluation (2023)
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Background Programme changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted variably on preparation for practice of healthcare professional students. Explanations for such variability need exploration. The aim of our study was to understand what clinica... Read More about Training healthcare professionals to be ready for practice in an era of social distancing: A realist evaluation.

Research priorities regarding the use of bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a UK priority setting exercise (2023)
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Worldwide, many people who would benefit from osteoporosis drugs are not offered or receiving them, resulting in an osteoporosis care gap. Adherence with bisphosphonates is particularly low. This study aimed to identify stakeholder research prioritie... Read More about Research priorities regarding the use of bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a UK priority setting exercise.

A proposal to embed patient and public involvement within qualitative data collection and analysis phases of a primary care based implementation study (2023)
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P082 Research priorities regarding the use of bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a UK priority setting exercise (2023)
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Determining the influence of different linking patterns on the stability of students' score adjustments produced using Video-based Examiner Score Comparison and Adjustment (VESCA). (2022)
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BACKGROUND: Ensuring equivalence of examiners' judgements across different groups of examiners is a priority for large scale performance assessments in clinical education, both to enhance fairness and reassure the public. This study extends insight i... Read More about Determining the influence of different linking patterns on the stability of students' score adjustments produced using Video-based Examiner Score Comparison and Adjustment (VESCA)..

Determining influence, interaction and causality of Contrast and Sequence effects in OSCEs. (2021)
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INTRODUCTION: Differential rater function over time (DRIFT) and contrast effects (examiners' scores biased away from the standard of preceding performances) both challenge the fairness of scoring in Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs). This i... Read More about Determining influence, interaction and causality of Contrast and Sequence effects in OSCEs..

Understanding patient involvement in judging students' communication skills in OSCEs. (2021)
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INTRODUCTION: Communication skills are assessed by medically-enculturated examiners using consensus frameworks which were developed with limited patient involvement. Assessments consequently risk rewarding performance which incompletely serves patien... Read More about Understanding patient involvement in judging students' communication skills in OSCEs..

Measuring the Effect of Examiner Variability in a Multiple-Circuit Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) (2021)
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Purpose Ensuring that examiners in different parallel circuits of objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) judge to the same standard is critical to the chain of validity. Recent work suggests examiner-cohort (i.e., the particular group of... Read More about Measuring the Effect of Examiner Variability in a Multiple-Circuit Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).

Understanding and developing procedures for video-based assessment in medical education (2020)
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Introduction Novel uses of video aim to enhance assessment in health-professionals education. Whilst these uses presume equivalence between video and live scoring, some research suggests that poorly understood variations could challenge validity. We... Read More about Understanding and developing procedures for video-based assessment in medical education.

How do older adults understand and manage distress? A qualitative study (2020)
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BACKGROUND: Distress is an expected emotional response to a negative life event. Experiences common in later life may trigger distress such as bereavement or loss of physical mobility. Distress is considered to be distinct to anxiety and/or depressio... Read More about How do older adults understand and manage distress? A qualitative study.

Perils, pitfalls and potential for the use of reporting guidelines in experimental research in medical education. (2019)
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Commentary.

How older adults self-manage distress - does the internet have a role? A qualitative study (2018)
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BACKGROUND Anxiety and depression are common in older adults, but often under-recognised by GPs. Rather than perceiving themselves as suffering from anxiety or depression, older adults are more likely to self-identify as experiencing low mood, stres... Read More about How older adults self-manage distress - does the internet have a role? A qualitative study.