introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...

Background: Programming and planning an appropriate structure for internship and purposeful assessments of students play a considerable role in developing their practical and theoretical knowledge level. One of the suitable alternatives for the traditional method is assessing internship through Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Therefore the aim of the present study is to perfor...

since 1960s, many experts criticized the use of traditional examinations to assess the skills of medical trainees at all levels and many efforts implemented to create a feasible instrument to measure these skills. objective structured clinical examination (osce) is a modern type of evaluation which is used in many psychiatric and other clinical centers worldwide and has shown a credible validit...

BACKGROUND The use of objective structured clinical examination in pediatrics is not common in undergraduate evaluation process. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of objective structured clinical examination as compare to conventional examination as formative assessment tool in Pediatrics. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional comparative study in defined population of 9th semester M...