Relationships between objective structured clinical examination, computer-based testing, and clinical clerkship performance in Japanese medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is unclear how comprehensive evaluations conducted prior to clinical clerkships (CC), such as the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and computer-based testing (CBT), reflect the performance of medical students in CC. Here we retrospectively analyzed correlations between OSCE and CBT scores and CC performance.

Methods

Ethical approval was obtained from our institutional review board. We analyzed correlations between OSCE and CBT scores and CC performance in 94 medical students who took the OSCE and CBT in 2017 when they were 4th year students, and who participated in the basic CC in 2018 when they were 5th year students.

Results

Total scores for OSCE and CBT were significantly correlated with CC performance (P<0.001, each). More specificall

SUBMITTER: Komasawa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7098585 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature