Accuracy of physician self-assessment compared with observed measures of competence: a systematic review.

By MD David A. Davis, PhD Paul E. Mazmanian, MD Michael Fordis, PhD R. Van Harrison, MMath Kevin E. Thorpe, MEd Mlis Laure Perrier. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2006

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Subfields: Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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The role of assessment in competency-based medical education (2010, background): “We now know that, when performed in isolation, self-assessment is not only ineffective but is potentially dangerous (Davis et al. 2006; Eva & Regehr 2008).”
The effects of problem-based learning during medical school on physician competency: a systematic review (2008, methodology): “These different findings based on type of assessment were not unexpected because medical education literature suggests physicians have limited selfassessment abilities.(26,27)”
Associations between perceived employability, employee well-being, and its contribution to organizational success: a matter of psychological contracts? (2011, background): “For example, De Cuyper et al. (2008) observed a positive relationship, albeit weak to moderate, between perceived employability, being the predictor, and both work engagement and life satisfaction, as the dependent variables.”
The Dunning–Kruger Effect (2011, background): “…in the classroom (Camerer & Hogarth, 1999, 1982), workplace (Harris & Schaubroeck, 1988; Stajkovic & Luchins, 1998), or the doctor’s office (Davis et al., 2006). p0255 Which leads Au11to the third—and most central—finding, that people in the bottom 25% of performers, whose actual…”
The management paradox (2011, methodology): “First, earlier research has demonstrated that particularly less skilled workers tend to over-rate their performance ( David et al. , 2006”
Recognizing, Assessing, and Intervening With Problems of Professional Competence (2007, background): “Professionals tend not to be very accurate in their self-assessment (Davis et al., 2006), and thus strategies (e.g., guided self-assessment and self-evaluation exercises early in training, self-audit used strategically in continuing professional development) need to be put into place to enhance the…”
Attaining information literacy: An investigation of the relationship between skill level, self-estimates of skill, and library anxiety (2007, background): “Further, much research on the ability of individuals to self-assess their instructional needs demonstrates that such self-assessments are faulty (Davis et al., 2006; Gravil, Compeau, & Marcolin, 2005).”
Overconfidence as a cause of diagnostic error in medicine. (2008, background): “A systematic review of studies assessing the accuracy of physicians’ self-assessment of knowledge compared with an external measure of competence showed very little correlation between self-assessment and objective data.(148) The authors also found that those physicians who were least expert tended ”
Competency Assessment Toolkit for Professional Psychology (2009, background): “The least accurate self-assessments are those of professionals who are least skilled and/or most confident (Davis et al., 2006).”