Assessing the utility and efficacy of e-OSCE among undergraduate medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its quick progression to a global pandemic has urged medical schools to shift from didactic to distance learning and assessment approaches. The quality of clinical training and assessment have been jeopardized due to the regulatory restrictions and potential hazards to human lives. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the utility and efficacy of an electronic Objective Structured Clinical Examination (e-OSCE), which attempted to transform the format of a face-to-face OSCE to an e-OSCE.

Methods

We conducted three end of clerkship e-OSCEs for final year medical students in Surgery, Medicine and Family Medicine using the teleconferencing application of Microsoft Teams (MST). The e-OSCE blueprint included the ass

SUBMITTER: Shorbagi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8902284 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature