Celia Brown

Dados Biográficos

ID6983520
NOMECelia Brown
PRENOMESCelia
SOBRENOMEBrown
ASSINATURABROWN C
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0000-0002-7526-0793
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS20
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR20
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • The effectiveness of virtual reality simulated scenarios at improving medical students’ confidence and engagement in clinical communication

    Open AccessWilliam J Waldock, Alexandra M Bucko et al.ARTICLEBMC Medical Education2026

    BACKGROUND: Effective communication is a core component of medical training, yet opportunities to practise emotionally challenging conversations such as those involving distressed families are often limited in clinical placements. Virtual reality (VR) offers a scalable, immersive teaching tool that may enhance student confidence and engagement in communication skills training. METHODS: A prospective observational study was conducted with fifth-ye…

  • Equity in medical school interviews

    Open AccessUmika Moorjani, Celia Brown et al.ARTICLEBMC Medical Education2026

  • Does clinical exposure to different skin tones during training improve diagnostic ability

    Open AccessYusra Shammoon, Anna Coulson et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026

  • Can educators distinguish between medical student and generative AI‐authored reflections

    Open AccessConstance Wraith, Alasdair Carnegy et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2025

  • Utility of large language models for creating clinical assessment items

    Open AccessGeorge Lam, Yusra Shammoon et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2025

    PURPOSE: To compare student performance, examiner perceptions and cost of GPT-assisted (generative pretrained transformer-assisted) clinical and professional skills assessment (CPSAs) items against items created using standard methods. METHODS: We conducted a prospective, controlled, double-blinded comparison of CPSA items developed using GPT-assistance with those created through standard methods. Two sets of six practical cases were developed fo…

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

    Open AccessCelia Brown, Sarah Khavandi et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2025

    Purpose Delivering fair and reliable summative assessments in medical education assumes examiner decision making is devoid of bias. We investigated whether candidate racial appearances influenced examiner ratings in undergraduate clinical exams.Methods We used an internet-based design. Examiners watched a randomised set of six videos of three different white candidates and three different non-white (Asian, black and Chinese) candidates taking a c…

  • Extra time examination conditions and question format

    Open AccessEsta R Finesilver, Willow R Fox et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2025

    Introduction Single best answer (SBA) questions are used widely in both undergraduate and postgraduate examinations, while very short answer (VSA) questions enable a more authentic assessment of applied knowledge. Variation in SBA and VSA examination results under standard and extended time conditions remains unclear and warrants investigation to ensure fair and inclusive assessment practices.Methods We analysed data from a cross-sectional study …

  • Response to

    Celia Brown, Sarah Khavandi et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2024

    Dear EditorWe welcome the comments of Ng [1] on our paper evaluating potential racial bias in clinical assessments. We agree that we did not include candidates of every race in the study. We select

  • Twelve tips for introducing very short answer questions (VSAQs) into your medical curriculum

    Open AccessLaksha Bala, Rachel Westacott et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2023

    Most undergraduate written examinations use multiple-choice questions, such as single best answer questions (SBAQs) to assess medical knowledge. In recent years, a strong evidence base has emerged for the use of very short answer questions (VSAQs). VSAQs have been shown to be an acceptable, reliable, discriminatory, and cost-effective assessment tool in both formative and summative undergraduate assessments. VSAQs address many of the concerns rai…

  • Assessing the Utility of a Quality-of-Care Assessment Tool Used in Assessing Comprehensive Care Services Provided by Community Health Workers in South Africa

    Open AccessOlukemi Babalola, Jane Goudge et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Few studies exist on the tools for assessing quality-of-care of community health worker (CHW) who provide comprehensive care, and for available tools, evidence on the utility is scanty. We aimed to assess the utility components of a previously-reported quality-of-care assessment tool developed for summative assessment in South Africa. Methods: In two provinces, we used ratings by 21 CHWs and three team leaders in two primary health ca…

  • The influence of candidates’ physical attributes on patient ratings in simulated assessments of clinical practice

    Open AccessCelia Brown, Kerry Badger et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2022

    BACKGROUND: We 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. METHODS: Simulated/real patients were randomly assigned to watch five videos of simulated candidate performances of a cranial nerve examination: clear fail, borderline, good, 'clear pa…

  • Assessing the predictive validity of the Ucat—A systematic review and narrative synthesis

    Open AccessLaksha Bala, Stephen Pedder et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2022

  • A household-based community health worker programme for non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and maternal health

    Open AccessEmily B Wroe, Basimenye Nhlema et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Community health worker (CHW) programmes are a valuable component of primary care in resource-poor settings. The evidence supporting their effectiveness generally shows improvements in disease-specific outcomes relative to the absence of a CHW programme. In this study, we evaluated expanding an existing HIV and tuberculosis (TB) disease-specific CHW programme into a polyvalent, household-based model that subsequently included non-comm…

  • Is Academic Attainment or Situational Judgment Test Performance in Medical School Associated With the Likelihood of Disciplinary Action? A National Retrospective Cohort Study

    Amir H Sam, Laksha Bala et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    PURPOSE: Disciplinary action imposed on physicians indicates their fitness to practice medicine is impaired and patient safety is potentially at risk. This national retrospective cohort study sought to examine whether there was an association between academic attainment or performance on a situational judgment test (SJT) in medical school and the risk of receiving disciplinary action within the first 5 years of professional practice in the United…

  • National inter-rater agreement of standardised simulated-patient-based assessments

    Amir H Sam, Michael D Reid et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2021

    PURPOSE: The forthcoming UK Medical Licensing Assessment will require all medical schools in the UK to ensure that their students pass an appropriately designed Clinical and Professional Skills Assessment (CPSA) prior to graduation and registration with a licence to practice medicine. The requirements for the CPSA will be set by the General Medical Council, but individual medical schools will be responsible for implementing their own assessments.…

  • The influence of candidates’ physical attributes on assessors’ ratings in clinical practice

    Open AccessAmir H Sam, Michael D Reid et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2021

    BACKGROUND: Assessments of physician competence in the work-place are common and often contribute to high-stakes assessments. Previous research suggests that assessors' judgements can be influenced by candidates' physical attributes. We investigated whether simulated candidates' scores were influenced by assessor bias based on tattoos, hair colour, and a regional accent. METHODS: We used an experimental, video-based, single-blinded, randomised, i…

  • Thinking differently – Students’ cognitive processes when answering two different formats of written question

    Open AccessAmir H Sam, Rebecca Wilson et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2021

    BACKGROUND: Single-best answer questions (SBAQs) are common but are susceptible to cueing. Very short answer questions (VSAQs) could be an alternative, and we sought to determine if students' cognitive processes varied across question types and whether students with different performance levels used different methods for answering questions. METHODS: We undertook a 'think aloud' study, interviewing 21 final year medical students at five UK medica…

  • Comparing the use of direct observation, standardized patients and exit interviews in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessNavneet Aujla, Yen-Fu Chen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Clinical records in primary healthcare settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are often lacking or of too poor quality to accurately assess what happens during the patient consultation. We examined the most common methods for assessing healthcare workers’ clinical behaviour: direct observation, standardized patients and patient/healthcare worker exit interview. The comparative feasibility, acceptability, reliability, validity and pra…

  • Reflection in practice

    Open AccessJennifer Jones, Julian Bion et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2020

    BACKGROUND: Patient and staff experiences provide important insights into care quality, but health systems have difficulty using these data to improve care. Little attention has been paid to understanding how patient experience feedback can act as a prompt to reflection in practice in the clinical setting. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to identify the ways in which different types of patient experience feedback act as a trigger or prompt for engagement in …

  • Prioritising allocation of donor human breast milk amongst very low birthweight infants in middle‐income countries

    Open AccessCelia Brown, Yaseen Joolay et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2018

    The use of donor human breast milk instead of formula reduces the risk of necrotising enterocolitis in preterm infants when their mother's own milk is insufficient. Use of donor milk is limited by the cost of establishing a milk bank and a lack of donors, but the optimal rationing of limited donor milk is unclear. This paper uses an economic model to explore how a limited donor milk supply should be allocated across very low birthweight infants i…