Objective structured clinical examination: Challenges and opportunities from students' perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been used in evaluating clinical competence in health professions education around the world. Despite its implementation in Iraq for around a decade, limited studies investigated the challenges and opportunities to improve the standard and quality of this examination from student's perspective.

Methods

This qualitative study was based on an online open-ended questionnaire survey that was carried out in the College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Iraq at the beginning of the 2018-2019 academic year. A convenience sample of 180 students in the clinical phase (4th, 5th, and 6th) year of study were invited to participate.

Results

A total of 141 students responded to the online questionnaire. The parti

SUBMITTER: Alkhateeb N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9439190 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature