Introduction and Evaluation of Objective Structured Practical Examination as an Assessment Tool in Pharmacology for Second Year Medical Students

A study on objective structured practical examination ( OSPE ) as a tool for assessment of medical students

Background: Most of the medical colleges in India follow the Conventional Practical Examination (CPE) system for evaluation of practical or clinical skills. This method has several flaws such as inter-examiner marks variation, favouritism, varying difficulty level of different experiments etc. which prevents uniform marking. Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE), conceptualised by H...

Objective structured practical examination in pharmacology for medical laboratory technicians.

The objective structured practical examination (OSPE) is a useful evaluation method for testing psychomotor skills. Students for the degree in medical laboratory technology require to learn certain skills which will make them useful in any research or teaching laboratory in experimental pharmacology. We outline an OSPE which can be used for evaluating students in experimental pharmacology.

Evaluation of outcomes of a formative objective structured clinical examination for second-year UK medical students

OBJECTIVE To explore how formative OSCEs influence student performance and perception when undertaking summative OSCEs. METHODS We introduced formative OSCEs for second-year medical students at a large London medical school. Examination data from both formative and subsequent summative OSCEs were analysed to determine the effect on summative OSCE performance. We gathered student perceptions u...

Objective structured clinical assessment as an evaluation tool for medical students.

Introduction of Structured Oral Examination as A Novel Assessment tool to First Year Medical Students in Physiology.

BACKGROUND The traditional viva examination which is still predominantly used in most of the medical institutions as one of the assessment methods has some demerits like lack of standardization, objectivity & reliability. The process involves many faculty members from respective departments. Hence there can be variations in the time allotted to each student, number of questions asked, and diffi...