The Emergency Medicine Group Standardized Letter of Evaluation as a Workplace-Based Assessment: The Validity Is in the Detail
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Love, Jeff N.; Doty, Christopher I.; Smith, Jessica L.; Deiorio, Nicole M.; Jordan, Jaime; Van Meter, Michael W.; Edens, Mary Ann; Hegarty, Cullen B.
Introduction: Interest is growing in specialty-specific assessments of student candidates based on clinical clerkship performance to assist in the selection process for postgraduate training. The most established and extensively used is the emergency medicine (EM) Standardized Letter of Evaluation (SLOE), serving as a substitute for the letter of recommendation. Typically developed by a program's leadership, the group SLOE strives to provide a unified institutional perspective on performance. The group SLOE lacks guidelines to direct its development raising questions regarding the assessments, processes, and standardization programs employ. This study surveys EM programs to gather validity evidence regarding the inputs and processes involved in developing group SLOEs.
2020
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
21/3
Love, Jeff N.; Doty, Christopher I.; Smith, Jessica L.; Deiorio, Nicole M.; Jordan, Jaime; Van Meter, Michael W.; Edens, Mary Ann; Hegarty, Cullen B.