Impact of integrating objective structured clinical examination into academic student assessment: Large-scale experience in a French medical school.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE) evaluate clinical reasoning, communication skills, and interpersonal behavior during medical education. In France, clinical training has long relied on bedside clinical practice in academic hospitals. The need for a simulated teaching environment has recently emerged, due to the increasing number of students admitted to medical schools, and the necessity of objectively evaluating practical skills. This study aimed at investigating the relationships between OSCE grades and current evaluation modalities.

Methods

Three-hundred seventy-nine 4th-year students of University-of-Paris Medical School participated to the first large-scale OSCE at this institution, consisting in three OSCE stations (OSCE#1-3). OSCE#1 and #2 focu

SUBMITTER: Matet A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7808634 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature