Abstract: Methods and systems for assessing communication skills of a professional are described. The professional may be a healthcare provider or any other professional having a position in which communication skills are highly valued. The communication skills of the professional are assessed using crowd-sourced raters to increase reliability of results. Feedback reports may also be created for use by the professional to improve communication skills.

Abstract: Medical training and performance assessment instruments, methods, and systems are disclosed. Training and/or assessment systems may include an augmented medical instrument for use by a student to examine a patient. A system in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes a first augmented medical instrument configured to sense a first physical parameter during examination of a subject and produce a first examination data and a second augmented medical instrument configured to sense a second physical parameter during examination of the subject and produce a second examination data. The system is configured to generate at least one simulated physical parameter based on the first examination data and present the at least one simulated physical parameter to the student on the second augmented medical instrument.

Abstract: Methods and systems for assessing communication skills of a professional are described. The professional may be a healthcare provider or any other professional having a position in which communication skills are highly valued. The communication skills of the professional are assessed using crowd-sourced raters to increase reliability of results. Feedback reports may also be created for use by the professional to improve communication skills.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention include methods of generating models for scoring patient notes. The methods include receiving a sample of patient notes, extracting a plurality of ngrams from the sample of patient notes, clustering the plurality of extracted ngrams that meet a similarity threshold into a plurality of lists, identifying a feature associated with each of the plurality of lists based on the ngrams in that list and designating at least one ngram in each list as evidence of the feature associated with that list. The identified features and designated ngram are stored in models for scoring patient notes.

Abstract: In a fully flexible interactive program, options are presented to the user by means of a projected slide. When one option is selected, and is entered into the machine, a preconditioned memory energizes a servomechanism to advance a select one of plural videotape recorders to a particular segment. The servo controls the tape advance by comparing distance to go with a signal proportional to the square of the tape velocity. When the segment is reached, the videotape presents an audiovisual segment to the user, during which time information for subsequent options to be presented is coupled into the system, including identification of the next option slide to be presented and video segment identification corresponding to those options for preconditioning the memory.