Development of a telehealth obesity OSCE and reliable checklist for assessment of resident physicians: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity is a major public health problem, yet residents undergo little formal training and assessment in obesity-related care. Given the recent growth of telehealth, physicians must further learn to apply these skills using a virtual platform. Therefore, we aimed to develop an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) with reliable checklists to assess resident ability to take a patient-centered obesity-focused history that was feasible over telehealth based on published obesity competencies for medical education.

Methods

We developed a 15-minute telehealth OSCE to simulate an obesity-related encounter for residents modified from a script used to assess medical student obesity competencies. We designed three checklists to assess resident skills in history t

SUBMITTER: Cameron NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9389479 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature