background : delivering iud services is one of the important competencies that midwifery students must obtain during academic period. as objective structured clinical examination (osce) can be reasonably reliable, valid and objective method for clinical skills assessment, this study was conducted to assess midwifery students` skill in delivering intrauterine device (iud) services using a clinic...

introduction: objective structured clinical examination (osce) is one of the most appropriate methods for assessment of clinical skills.validity and reliability assurance is a mandatory factor for any assessment tool. in shiraz university of medical sciences, medical students’ clinical competences are evaluated by a pre-internship osce. this study is designed to examine the validity and reliabi...

background & aim: neonatal resuscitation training is mandatory for the staff providing maternity and neonatal services in order to ensure competence during the academic period. this study was conducted to assess the neonatal resuscitation skills of nursing and midwifery students. methods:in this study, the skills of 48 nursing and midwifery students  were assessed, using objective structured cl...

background the objective structured clinical examination (osce) has been introduced as an efficient method for the assessment of medical students. objectives the aim of the present study was to determine the satisfaction level of undergraduate medical students of internal medicine department with the osce. materials and methods this was a descriptive cross-sectional study, performed on all avai...

Pharmacy education has undergone a radical change as it evolves towards becoming a more patient oriented profession. With a greater emphasis on problem based teaching and competency, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), supported by its reliability and validity became the gold standard for the evaluation of clinical skills of undergraduate students of medicine and pharmacy worl...

A total of one hundred and three pre-registration midwifery students (42 year one; 61 year three) took part in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) as part of their routine assessment over a three year pre-registration course. They completed preand postexam questionnaires which asked them to rate their confidence in the clinical skills being assessed on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 bei...

4 January 2014 M ILLER’S Pyramid of Assessment, the well-recognized and widely used model for the development and assessment of medical competence, defines four stages of capability: “knows,” “knows how,” “shows how,” and “does.”1 Each stage builds on the prior and each stage requires specific assessment tools. Nearly 4 decades of experience with the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (O...