Family Practice Vol. 21, No. 1, 81-82
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Can you compare competence and performance? A reply to McKinstry et al.
University of Hull, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Division of Psychological and Primary Care Medicine, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
E-mail: p.d.campion@hull.ac.uk
Received 3 January 2003; Accepted 8 September 2003.
Campion P. Can you compare competence and performance? A reply to McKinstry et al. Family Practice 2004; 21: 8182.
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The MRCGP video assessment of consulting skills was developed to determine whether candidates for membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners possessed those competencies that a group of experts (i.e. GPs on the panel of examiners) considered to be necessary for good clinical practice. It grew out of an assessment paradigm that was overtly criterion-referenced and qualitative,1 in which judgements were