BACKGROUND Traditional Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are psychometrically sound but have the limitation of fragmenting complex clinical cases into brief stations. We describe a pilot study of a modified OSCE that attempts to balance a typical OSCE format with a semblance of a continuous, complex, patient case. METHODS Two OSCE scenarios were developed. Each scenario invol...

The aim of the present research was to analyze autonomic stress response nursing students in a Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE). We analyzed, 41 s-year degree (20.1 ± 2.3 years), modifications heart rate variability (HRV) monitor before, during and after 18 different scenarios complete OSCE. Heart mean nurse consistent with an anticipatory anxiety at beginning OSCE, showing sympa...

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...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive aesthetic surgery training continues to be a challenge for residency programs. Our residency program developed a rhinoplasty-based objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) based upon validated methods as part of the residency education curriculum. We report our experience with the rhinoplasty-based OSCE and offer guidance to its incorporation within residency pr...

Aim: To evaluate OSCE’s educational value and assessed learning during the OSCE. Material & methods: Four-station OSCE, including different case scenarios, was administered to seventy one postgraduate residents between January 2008 to October 2010. Faculty assessed residents' general communication, assessment, management, and global skills using Likert scale. Residents completed a pre-OSCE surv...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the performance of students completing an 8-week versus a 6-week surgery clerkship on an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) clinical science surgery examination. METHODS One hundred fifteen students from the 8-week clerkship and 99 from the 6-week clerkship were included. Performan...

PURPOSE In a sequential objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), all students initially take a short screening OSCE. Examinees who pass are excused from further testing, but an additional OSCE is administered to the remaining examinees. Previous investigations of sequential OSCE were based on classical test theory. We aimed to design and evaluate screening OSCEs based on item response ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of faculty and graduates of college of nursing towards Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) as a valid and reliable method of clinical competency assessment in nursing ten years after its inception. Core nursing courses are based on instructional teaching methods and “hands-on” approach to impact cognitive, psychomotor skills and c...