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Table 1 Characteristics of clinics, trainers, tasks, observation and feedback during mini-clinical evaluation exercises (mini-CEX)

From: The influence of students’ prior clinical skills and context characteristics on mini-CEX scores in clerkships – a multilevel analysis

Clinic size

‘small’

29 clinics with n = 437 trainers’ ratingsa

‘medium-sized’

10 clinics with n = 462 trainers’ ratings

‘large’

6 clinics with n = 874 trainers’ ratings

Trainers

residents

54 % of the mini-CEX (n = 957)

senior physicians

36 % of the mini-CEX (n = 638)

heads of department

9 % of the mini-CEX (n = 160)

no information

1 % of the mini-CEX (n = 18)

Task complexity

‘low complexity’

9 % of the mini-CEX (n = 160)

‘medium complexity’

65 % of the mini-CEX (n = 1152)

‘high complexity’

17 % of the mini-CEX (n = 301)

no information

9 % of the mini-CEX (n = 160)

Duration

of observation

Median = 15 min

of feedback

Median = 5 min

  1. aFor a total of 1773 mini-CEX after exclusion of one student with 10 mini-CEX (outlier)