@article{10.22454/PRiMER.2024.624901,
author = {Morley, Christopher P.},
title = {Moving on From Self-assessment},
journal = {PRiMER},
volume = {8},
year = {2024},
month = {1},
doi = {10.22454/PRiMER.2024.624901},
abstract = {Self-assessment of knowledge and confidence is common in medical education, and there are both philosophical and practical justifications for it. However, many attempts to establish a correlation between self-assessments of knowledge or confidence and objective measures of knowledge or skill acquisition have failed. While in some circumstances the inclusion or reliance of self-assessment may be warranted, for example when a study is specifically measuring traits or outcomes that rely upon meta-cognition or increases in confidence, it is more often the case that self-assessment is used as a substitute for more objective measures. This is demonstrably flawed, and PRiMER as a journal will be moving away from publishing reports that inappropriately rely upon self-assessed knowledge or confidence as the only study outcomes.},
URL = {https://journals.stfm.org//primer/2024/editorial-morley-jan24/},
eprint = {https://journals.stfm.org//media/piunnbh3/primer-8-5.pdf},
}