Using the OSCE to assess medical students' communication and clinical reasoning during five years of restricted clinical practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Objective and Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a widely used evaluation method for health profession students. In Chile, physicians OSCEs have incorporated clinical reasoning and patient-centered communication assessment since 2015. The overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate medical clinical practice remains unknown, in particular whether this context disproportionately affected lower-income regions, as was the case analysed in this study.

Aim

This research compares the OSCE patient-centered communication and clinical reasoning results among five cohorts of intermediate-level medical students with restricted clinical practice in Chile.

Methods

We designed an observational study analyzing five cohorts of fourth-year medical student

SUBMITTER: Soledad AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12023525 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature