Linking assessment to real life practice - comparing work based assessments and objective structured clinical examinations using mystery shopping.

ABSTRACT: Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and Work Based Assessments (WBAs) are the mainstays of assessing clinical competency in health professions' education. Underpinned by the extrapolation inference in Kane's Validity Framework, the purpose of this study is to determine whether OSCEs translate to real life performance by comparing students' OSCE performance to their performance in real-life (as a WBA) using the same clinical scenario, and to understand factors that affect students' performance. A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach where a grade comparison between students' performance in their OSCE and WBA was performed. Students were third year pharmacy undergraduates on placement at a community pharmacy in 2022. The WBA was conducted by a simulated patient, unbek

SUBMITTER: Lim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208193 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature