Assessment of the Psychomotor Domain

Medical Education

Abstract

With the introduction of modularization, many of medical colleges have moved to a learning outcomes based approach to ensure that curriculum design evolves from a more teacher-centred (content) to a more student –centred (learning) focus. Identifying learning outcomes enables both the teacher and student to clearly identify what a student is expected to have achieved or have made progress towards achieving on completion of a module. A range of methods for competence (performance) assessment exist. Many methods for the assessment of psychomr domain were developed to assess the communication and clinical skills, procedural skills and professionalism. Advances in psychometric theory and technology have been paralleled by the development of assessment instruments that improve the evaluation of these skills.