Comparison of vignettes, standardized patients, and chart abstraction: a prospective validation study of 3 methods for measuring quality.

By J. Peabody, J. Luck, P. Glassman, T. Dresselhaus, M. Lee. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2000

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Assessing Competence in Communication and Interpersonal Skills: The Kalamazoo II Report (2004, background): “Studies demonstrate good correlation between the audiotape and the standardized patient reports.(92) Apart from these evaluation methods, educational programs have used standardized patients to provide a uniform experience for multiple learners to practice and receive coaching in specific communicat”
Measuring the Quality of Physician Practice by Using Clinical Vignettes: A Prospective Validation Study (2004, background): “These shortcomings underscore our belief that vignettes, like other measures of clinical practice, should not be used as a solitary measure of individual clinical competence (57).”
Learning in a Virtual World: Experience With Using Second Life for Medical Education (2010, result): “This case approach has been shown to have good validity as compared to actual clinical practice [41].”
Clinical Vignette-Based Surveys: A Tool for Assessing Physician Practice Variation (2005, background): “The reports of the standardized patients, which the authors referred to as the “gold standard,” yielded the highest scores for quality of care, followed by the clinical vignette scores and the chart abstract scores.(11) While some research on the use of clinical vignettes has been very positive, man”