Sensor Technology in Assessments of Clinical Skill

To the Editor: Clinical-skills assessments provide motivation and direction for learning. 1 , 2 Adoption of simulation-based education methods has introduced a wide variety of options for clinical-performance assessment. 3 , 4 To explore the potential value added by integrating sensor technology with a skills assessment, this study investigated whether sensor data could inform previously accepted observation-based performance recommendations for the clinical breast examination (CBE). 5 We hypothesized that sensor technology would help to characterize successful and unsuccessful CBE techniques at a level of detail that is not possible with observation alone. The study protocol was administered in 2013 and 2014 and required practicing physicians . . .