Clinical experience can compensate for inferior academic achievements in an undergraduate objective structured clinical examination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Practical and non-cognitive skills are essential to medical professions; yet, success in medical studies is primarily assessed with cognitive criteria. We show that practical exams can benefit students who have only average high school final grades, but working experience in medical professions.

Methods

With a cross-sectional study, we compare the performance of undergraduate medical students with working experience in adjacent health-care professions (and below-average school leaving-grades) with students who entered medical school directly based on their excellent school records in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). For a sample of more than 1,200 students, we use information on OSCE scores in medical and practical skills, doctor-patient commun

SUBMITTER: Tsikas SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022153 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature