Duvivier Robbert, Veysey Martin
Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Teaching & Research Unit, Gosford Hospital, Gosford, NSW, Australia.
Med Educ. 2016 Dec;50(12):1245-1248. doi: 10.1111/medu.13091.
Current tools for clinical assessment are tedious and time-consuming, particularly the dreadful long case. There is a need for novel instruments that incorporate other aspects of competence. We propose such a method, namely the Uh/Um Index. Our innovation paper describes the rationale for using speech dysfluency and occurrences of filler words such as 'uh' and 'um' as a proxy for competence. This appears to have won initial support from senior clinicians in our institution. Additional research is needed (non-restricted grants are welcomed) to establish rigorous standard setting and to fund our attendance at overseas conferences to make the Uh/Um Index the new buzzword in medical education.
当前的临床评估工具既繁琐又耗时，尤其是可怕的长病例。需要有纳入其他能力方面的新颖工具。我们提出了这样一种方法，即呃/嗯指数。我们的创新论文描述了将言语不流畅以及诸如“呃”和“嗯”等填充词的出现用作能力指标的基本原理。这似乎已获得我们机构资深临床医生的初步支持。需要进行更多研究（欢迎无限制拨款）来建立严格的标准设定，并资助我们参加海外会议，以使呃/嗯指数成为医学教育中的新热门词汇。
