PUBLICATION
Peer-Reviewed Publications based on work done in the Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute:
- Yudkowsky R, Park YS, Hyderi A, Bordage G: Characteristics and Implications of Diagnostic Justification Scores Based on the New Patient Note Format of the USMLE Step 2 CS Exam. Academic Medicine 2015; 90:S56-S62.
- Luciano C, Van Meter A, Matulyauskas M, Kania P, Banerjee P, Yudkowsky R: Haptic augmented reality lumbar puncture simulator: pilot evaluation. (Abstract) Simulation in Healthcare 2015; 10:473. First place award, Technology Innovation abstract.
- Yudkowsky R, Tumuluru S, Casey P, Herlich N, Ledonne C: A Patient Safety Approach to Setting Pass/Fail Standards for Basic Procedural Skills Checklists. Simulation in Healthcare 2014; 9(5):277-82.
- Yudkowsky R, Park YS, Riddle J, Palladino C, Bordage G: Limiting Checklist Items to Clinically-Discriminating Items: Improved Validity of Test Scores. Academic Medicine, 2014; 89(7):1057-62.
- Hernandez C, Mermelstein R, Robinson JK, Yudkowsky R: Assessing students’ ability to detect melanomas using standardized patients and moulage. J Am Acad Dermatol 2013; 68(3):e83-88. Epub 2011 Dec 23.
- Park YS, Lineberry M, Hyderi A, Bordage G, Riddle J, Yudkowsky R: Validity evidence for a patient note scoring rubric based on the new patient note format of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Academic Medicine 2013; 88(10):1552-7.
- Schwartz A, Weiner S, Binns-Calvey A: Comparing Announced with Unannounced Standardized Patients in Performance Assessment. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2013; 39(2): 83-88.
- Gangopadhyaya A, Kamin C, Kiser R, Shadrake L, Yudkowsky R: Assessing Residents’ Interprofessional Conflict Negotiations Skills. Medical Education 2013; 47:1139-1140.
- Yudkowsky R, Park YS, Riddle J, Palladino C, Bordage G: Comparing the Validity of Clinically Discriminating vs Traditional “Thoroughness” Checklists. (Abstract) Simulation in Healthcare 2013; 8(3): 196.
- Yudkowsky R, Luciano C, Banerjee P, Schwartz A, Alaraj A, Lemole M, Charbel F, Smith K, Rizzi S, Byrne R, Bendok B, Frim D: Practice on an Augmented Reality/Haptic Simulator and Library of Virtual Brains Improves Residents’ Ability to Perform a Ventriculostomy. Simulation in Healthcare 2012; 8(1):25-31.
- Weiner SJ, Schwartz A, Cyrus K, Binns-Calvey A, Weaver F, Sharma G, Yudkowsky R. Unannounced Standardize Patient Assessment of the Roter Interaction Analysis System: The Challenge of Measuring Patient-Centered Communication. Journal of General Internal Medicine. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-012-2221-3 Published online 19 Sept 2012.
- Binns-Calvey AE, Rush N, Hansen A, Soto K, Yudkowsky R: Improving Ambulatory Services Using Unannounced Standardized Patients. Simulation in Healthcare 2012; 7(3):203.
- Schwartz A, Weiner SJ, Weaver F, Yudkowsky R, Sharma G, Benns-Calvey A, Preyss B, Jordan N: Uncharted Territory: Measuring Costs of Diagnostic Errors Outside the Medical Record. BMJ Quality & Safety 7 July 2012; doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2012-000832.
- Yudkowsky R, Riddle J, Feinzimer B, Kondos G, Bordage G: Learning to Listen: A Guide to Simulator-Assisted Practice in Recognizing and Interpreting Abnormal Physical Exam Findings. Simulation in Healthcare 2011; 6(6):455.
- Yudkowsky R, Luciano C, Banerjee P, Alaraj A, Lemole M, Schwartz A, Charbel F, Smith K, Rizzi S: Ventriculostomy Practice on a Library of Virtual Brains Using a VR/Haptic Simulator Improves Simulator and Surgical Outcomes. Simulation in Healthcare, 2011; 6(6):395.
- Yudkowsky R, Valdes W, Raja S, Kiser R: Assessing residents’ telehealth communication skills using standardized patients. Medical Education 2011; 45:1155.
- Binns-Calvey A, Yudkowsky R, Weiner S, Dolley F, Brown J, Schwartz A: Assessing Unannounced Standardized Patients’ Accuracy in Real Practice Compared with SP Accuracy in a Clinical Performance Center (Abstract). Simulation in Healthcare 2011; 6(3):191.
- Yudkowsky R, Luciano C, Banerjee P, Alaraj A, Lemole M, Schwartz A, Charbel F, Mlinarevich N, Smith K, Gandhi S, Rizzi S: A library of virtual brains for ventriculostomy practice on a VR/haptic simulator – initial validity evidence. Simulation in Healthcare 2010; 5:436.
- Yudkowsky R, Galanter W, Jackson R: Students Overlook Information in the Electronic Health Record. Med Educ 2010; 1132-1133.
- Schwartz A, Weiner SJ, Harris IB, Binns-Calvey A: An educational intervention for contextualizing patient care and medical students’ abilities to probe for contextual issues in simulated patients. JAMA 2010; 304(11): 1191-1197.
- Weiner SJ, Schwartz A, Weaver FM, Goldberg JH, Yudkowsky R, Sharma G, Binns-Calvey A, Preyss B, Schapira M, Persell S, Jacobs E, Abrams R.: Contextual Errors and Failures in Individualizing Patient Care: A Multicenter Study. Annals of Internal Medicine 2010; 153(2), 69-75.
- Schwartz, A., Weiner, S.J. Unannounced Standardized Patients: A Gold Standard for the Research and Practice of Clinical Performance Assessment. Background paper for the 14th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions 2009.
- Lowenstein T, Lockwood E, Yudkowsky R: Training Deaf Persons to be Standardized Patients. Med Educ 2009; 43(11):1098-9.
- Yudkowsky R, Lowenstein T, Riddle J, Otaki J, Nishigori RH, Bordage G: A Hypothesis-Driven Physical Exam for Medical Students: Initial Validity Evidence. Med Educ 2009; 43:729-740.
- Iramaneerat C, Myford CM, Yudkowsky R, Lowenstein T: Evaluating the effectiveness of rating instruments for a communication skills assessment of medical residents. Advances in Health Sciences Education 2009; 14:575-594.
- Yudkowsky R, Downing SM, Popescu M: Setting Standards for Performance Tests: A Three-level Angoff Method. Acad Med 2008; 83(Suppl 10): S13-S16.
- Yudkowsky R, Downing SM, Wirth S: Simpler Standards for Local Performance Examinations: The Yes/No Angoff and Whole-test Ebel. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2008; 20(3):212-217.
- Iramaneerat C, Yudkowsky R: Rater Errors in a Clinical Skills Assessment of Medical Students. Evaluation & the Health Professions 2007; 30(3):266-283.
- Weiner SJ, Schwartz A, Yudkowsky R, Schiff GD, Weaver FM, Goldberg J, Weiss KB: Evaluating Physician Performance at Individualizing Care: A Pilot Study Tracking Contextual Errors in Medical Decision Making. Medical Decision Making 2007; 27(6): 726-734.
- Iramaneerat C, Yudkowsky R, Myford CM, Downing S: Quality Control of an OSCE Using Generalizability Theory and Many-Faceted Rasch Measurement. Advances in Health Sciences Education 2008, 13(4):479 – 493. (Published online 20 Feb 2007). DOI10.1007/s10459-007-9060-8
- Banerjee P, Yudkowsky R, Lemole M, Charbel F, Luciano C: Using a High-Fidelity Virtual Reality and Haptics-based Simulation to Determine the “Learning Curve” of Neurosurgery Residents’ Surgical Skills. Simulation in Healthcare, 2007; 2:145.
- Yudkowsky R, Downing SM, Sandlow LJ: Developing an Institution-based Assessment of Resident Communication and Interpersonal Skills. Acad Med, 2006: 81: 1115-1122.
- Yudkowsky R, Bordage G, Lowenstein T, Riddle J: Residents Anticipating, Eliciting, and Interpreting Physical Findings. Medical Education, 2006, 40:1141-42.
- Yudkowsky R, Downing SM, Ommert D: Prior Experiences Associated with Residents’ Scores on a Communication and Interpersonal Skill OSCE. Patient Education and Counseling, 2006; 62:368-373.
- Downing S, Tekian A, Yudkowsky R: Procedures for Establishing Defensible Absolute Passing Scores on Performance Examinations in Health Professions Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2006; 18(1):50-57.
- Yudkowsky R, Loy G, York J: Ensuring Medical Student Competency in Basic Procedural Skills. Medical Education 2005; 39:515.
- Hasnain M, Connell K, Downing SM, Olthoff A, Yudkowsky R: Toward Meaningful Evaluation of Clinical Competence: The Role of Direct Observation in Clerkship Ratings. Acad Med 2004;79 S21-S24.
- Yudkowsky R, Downing S, Klamen D, Valaski M, Eulenberg B, Popa M: Assessing the Head-To-Toe Physical Examinations Skills of Medical Students. Medical Teacher 2004, 26(5):415-419.
- Yudkowsky R, Downing S: Standard Setting for Communication and Interpersonal Skills. Educacion Medica 2004: 7(3)182.
- Yudkowsky R, Alseidi A, Cintron J: Beyond Fulfilling the Core Competencies: an Objective Structured Clinical Examination to Assess Communication and Interpersonal Skills in a Surgical Residency. Current Surgery 2004; 61(5):499-503.
- Schwartz A, Hupert J: Medical students’ application of literature findings to a standardized patient: randomised trial. BMJ 2003; 326, 536-538.
- Gelula M, Yudkowsky R: Using Standardized Students in Faculty Development Workshops to Improve Clinical Teaching Skills. Medical Education 2003; 37:621-629.
- Gelula M, Yudkowsky R: Microteaching and Standardized Students Support Faculty Development for Clinical Teaching. Academic Medicine 2002; 77(9):941.
- Yudkowsky, R: Should We Use Standardized Patients for High Stakes Examinations in Psychiatry? Academic Psychiatry 2002; 26(3): 187-192.
- Klamen D, Yudkowsky R: Using Standardized Patients for Formative Feedback in an Introduction to Psychotherapy Course. Academic Psychiatry 2002; 26(3):168-172.