Life Is Short, the Art Long, Opportunity Fleeting, Experience Treacherous, Judgment Difficult

摘要: To the Editor. —We read article in Dec 18, 1987, issue of JAMA by Drs Elliot and Hickam 1 with great interest. We were pleased to see topic consistency patient instructors (we now call them standardized patients ) compared faculty observers appear inTHE JOURNAL. provide a valid reliable method for evaluating physical examination skills medical students is one challenges facing education today. have trained teach evaluate diagnosis more than 15 years. 2-4 They been used extensively throughout undergraduate curriculum, as well residents practitioners. Our experience use has even encouraging that reported Hickam. For example, we quality control check