Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX): An overview
Abstract
Over the last two decades, medical education has
changed its role significantly to move from the
traditional curriculum to the outcome based
education. This is done after deciding the
competencies to be achieved by the students more
clearly1
. The Institute for International Medical
Education (IIME) has clearly focused the minimum
essential core competencies that a medical graduate
must possess including the clinical skills,
communication skills, professional values, attitudes
and behaviors1
.
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