Trial reportMedical teacher2022
The influence of candidates' physical attributes on patient ratings in simulated assessments of clinical practice.
Trial report in Medical teacher, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Demographic biases in AI-generated simulated patient cohorts: a comparative analysis against census benchmarks.Advances in simulation (London, England) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe have previously shown that clinical examiners' scoring is not negatively impacted when a candidate has a tattoo, unnatural hair colour, or a regional accent. We investigated whether these physical attributes in exam candidates impact patient scoring.
methodsSimulated/real patients were randomly assigned to watch five videos of simulated candidate performances of a cranial nerve examination: clear fail, borderline, good, 'clear pass' without an attribute, and 'clear pass' with one of the attributes (tattoo, purple hair, accent). Participants scored domains of communication and professionalism. We compared scores for the clear pass candidates with and without attributes.
resultsOne hundred and eighty three patients participated. The total scores for the candidates with tattoos and purple hair were higher than the candidate with no physical attribute (
conclusionsThe presence of certain physical attributes (tattoos or purple hair) was associated with higher scores given by patients to candidates in a simulated physical examination station.
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