The influence of candidates’ race on examiners’ ratings in standardised assessments of clinical practice

• DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2024.2345266
• Publication Date: 2024-05-21T18:54:00Z
• Authors: Celia Brown; Sarah Khavandi; Ann Sebastian; Kerry Badger; Rachel Westacott; Malcolm W. R. Reed; Mark Gurnell; Amir H. Sam
• Keywords: Clinical Practice

Delivering fair and reliable summative assessments in medical education assumes examiner decision making is devoid of bias. We investigated whether candidate racial appearances influenced ratings undergraduate clinical exams.