Table 5.

Students’ views of appropriate needed methods for assessing skills of professional attitudes, values, and ethics.

	Gender		Overall (N = 108)
(Cronbach’s α 0.845)	Female (N = 84)	Male (N = 24)	Male and female
1. Standardized (e.g. simulated) patients’ assessment of their interactions with students	6.84 ± 1.70	7.04 ± 1.68	6.89 ± 1.69
2. Faculty direct observation of students’ interactions with actual patients	7.60 ± 1.31	7.67 ± 1.13	7.62 ± 1.26
3. Faculty observation of videotaped interactions of students with actual patients	6.45 ± 2.04	6.46 ± 2.13	6.45 ± 2.05
4. Faculty observation of students’ interactions with clinical team members	7.31 ± 1.51	7.29 ± 1.33	7.31 ± 1.46
5. Students’ written and observational skills in analyzing ‘trigger’ videotapes	5.77 ± 2.14	5.92 ± 1.56	5.80 ± 2.02
6. Written exercises as follow-ups to standardized (e.g., simulated) patient interactions	5.73 ± 1.95	6.00 ± 2.00	5.79 ± 1.95
7. Evaluation of students by non-faculty staff	6.54 ± 1.98	6.33 ± 2.60	6.50 ± 2.12
8. Evaluation of students by patients	7.20 ± 1.99	7.13 ± 2.86	7.19 ± 2.20
Group means	6.68 ± 1.31	6.73 ± 1.28	6.69 ± 1.30

1. Rated on a scale from 1 = ‘much less’ to 5 = ‘same’ to 9 = ‘much more’ attention needed compared to now.