Limitations
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A possible limitation of this study is associated with its external validity. A review by Mccallum, Reed, Bachman, & Murray (2016) examined the effect of CE’s characteristics on CE’s and student’s performance, either by the CE’s self-perception or by the student’s perception. The result was not unequivocal, but some studies have indicated a positive effect of work seniority, CE’s seniority, academic degree, CE course, and more. In this study, no effect of the CE’s characteristics was found on student scores and the level of agreement. A possible reason for these findings is that the clinical training process in Clalit Health Services has been standardized, which leads to uniformity between the various CEs’, programs, and structure of the clinical training. Another possible reason is that all the CEs’ who participated in this study underwent a clinical training course. Previous studies have examined the effect of a training course and found a secondary effect of the course on the CE’s performance and student achievement [