Script concordance test acceptability and utility for assessing medical students' clinical reasoning: a user's survey and an institutional prospective evaluation of students' scores.

ABSTRACT: Script Concordance Testing (SCT) is a method for clinical reasoning assessment in the field of health-care training. Our aim was to assess SCT acceptability and utility with a survey and an institutional prospective evaluation of students' scores.With a user's online survey, we collected the opinions and satisfaction data of all graduate students and teachers involved in the SCT setting. We performed a prospective analysis comparing the scores obtained with SCT to those obtained with the national standard evaluation modality.General opinions about SCT were mostly negative. Students tended to express more negative opinions and perceptions. There was a lower proportion of negative responses in the teachers' satisfaction survey. The proportion of neutral responses was higher for teachers. The

SUBMITTER: Kun-Darbois JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9008989 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature