ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills (PACES). Hawks are tough. believe in tough love, they give a hard time, they expect high standards, they knock off the perch and they keep one honest. Hawks are negative and pessimistic. They pick up on every omission or fault in the examinations, they ask difficult questions and they critique harshly. Like yin and yang, doves are the opposite. Dove-like in behaviour, they are gentle. They encourage, they flatter, they appreciate the efforts, they build their confidence and they let them fly. Doves are positive and optimistic. They praise them thorough examinations, they ask sensible questions that one can answer and they critique them fairly. These stereotypes are not absolute, but every registrar or consultant who takes around will either have hawkish tendencies or be dove-like.
