Paula L. Stillman, MD — pediatric medicine
Courtesy Paula L. Stillman, MD, MBA
While teaching pediatrics at the University of Arizona in the 1970s, Dr. Paula Stillman (b. 1945) needed a reliable way to evaluate her students’ clinical competence. Her solution was to train and use “patient instructors” or “standardized patients.” Stillman’s system is a competency based program, Objective Structured Clinical Evaluations (OSCE), developed to assess medical students, foreign medical graduates, and U.S. doctors in danger of losing their licenses. Her system has also been adopted by medical schools in China.
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