Summative objective structured clinical examination as a reference of learners' need before entering their internship.

ABSTRACT:

Background/purpose

Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has found increasingly wide use in the education of clinical dentistry in recent years. The objectives of this study were to find the predictability of OSCE in representing a student's actual ability in a clinical environment and to provide instructors with better ideas to guide an individual student in a certain field.

Materials and methods

Thirty-one dentistry students' qualification OSCE scores were obtained after the conclusion of their dental clerkship in December 2014. The OSCE scores were compared with the various scores given by instructors from different departments during their internship a year later. The correlation was investigated between these two scores.

Results

The scores of the first

SUBMITTER: Hsiang-Hua Lai E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6388860 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature