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Assessment Of Competence For Caesarean Section With Global Rating Scale, Rahat Najam Qureshi, Syeda Kauser Ali
Assessment Of Competence For Caesarean Section With Global Rating Scale, Rahat Najam Qureshi, Syeda Kauser Ali
Department for Educational Development
Objective: To establish as reliable and valid the nine-point global rating scale for assessing residents\' independent performance of Caesarean Section.
Methods: The validation study was conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aga Khan University Hospital, from April to December 2008, and comprised 15 residents during 40 Caesarean Sections over 9 months. Independently two evaluators rated each procedure and the difficulty of each case.
Results: The observations per faculty ranged from 1-8 (mean 4.07± 2.56). The Year 4 residents were observed the most i.e. 32 (40%), followed by Year 3, 30 (37.5%); Year 2; 14 (17.5%); and Year 1, …