Student assessment by objective structured examination in a neurology clerkship.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We evaluated the reliability and predictive ability of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in the assessment of medical students at the completion of a neurology clerkship.

Methods

We analyzed data from 195 third-year medical students who took the OSCE. For each student, the OSCE consisted of 2 standardized patient encounters. The scores obtained from each encounter were compared. Faculty clinical evaluations of each student for 2 clinical inpatient rotations were also compared. Hierarchical regression analysis was applied to test the ability of the averaged OSCE scores to predict standardized written examination scores and composite clinical scores.

Results

Students' OSCE scores from the 2 standardized patient encounters were significantly

SUBMITTER: Lukas RV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3414663 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature