The use of television in the assessment of home and foreign postgraduate groups during an introductory course in psychiatry.

Videotapes were developed for testing the ability to detect psychiatric phenomena, methods of questioning and interview technique. These were capable of discriminating between the performance of home graduates (HGs) and foreign graduates (FGs) and were consistent with other test results. These were significant differences between HGs and FGs on all tests before and after teaching. HGs started with high scores on all tests and these remained high, although no significant improvement occurred with teaching. FGs started with lower scores and showed improvement on the videotape test only, after teaching. HGs and FGs were exposed to video teaching methods but FGs rated video demonstration as a more helpful teaching mode.