International Best Practices for Evaluation in the Health Professions

This unique text presents a comprehensive narrative on why and how health
professions students need to be evaluated for practice in the 21st century.
It systematically addresses current evaluation best practices in the health
professions to identify today’s evaluation benchmarks, reveal evaluation limits,
address improvement pathways, and map a research agenda to boost future
evaluation practices.
Advancements in information and communication technology, bioscience
and behavioral research, and worldwide travel are dissolving barriers that have
separated professions, countries, and cultures for centuries. This book both
celebrates these achievements and carefully considers next steps. It recognizes
the huge improvements made in evaluation practices within the health professions
over the past 40 years but asks for more – calling for added reform and better
understanding of current practice from different social, cultural, and educational
perspectives.
International Best Practices for Evaluation in the Health Professions values crossprofessional
programs that span boundaries and acknowledge the authority of the
future rather than historical baggage. Educators worldwide will be enlightened and
inspired by its straightforward, compelling narrative.
“Assessment practice in the health care profession has come a long way in
the last century. This book is written in the belief that a better understanding of
these developments and of assessment principles and concepts and tools and
techniques can help medical education to respond to the challenges of the next
century.”
Ronald M. Harden in the Foreword