Mahla Salajegheh; Nazanin Shamaeian Razavi
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Background: The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is broadly applied to assess the clinical competence of medical students. Despite the widespread use of the OSCE, the scoring methods used in this test can be a potential source of measurement error and affect the accuracy of the scores.Objectives: ...
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Background: The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is broadly applied to assess the clinical competence of medical students. Despite the widespread use of the OSCE, the scoring methods used in this test can be a potential source of measurement error and affect the accuracy of the scores.Objectives: This study was aimed to investigate the checklist and global rating form scoring methods in OSCE stations.Methods: In this narrative review study, the keywords “OSCE”, “Reliability”, “Validity”, “Utility”, “Global”, and “Checklist” were searched in Scopus, Web of Science, EMBASE, and Medline databases between 2010 and March 2021. After removing duplicates and considering the direct relationship of the articles to the study’s objectives, full-text articles were reviewed.Results: In total , 30 articles were retrived, of which 19 cases were finalized. The results of retrived articles were divided into five categories, including the correlation of scores, subjectivity and objectivity, validity and reliability, ease of use, and the need to train assessors, and the assessed capabilities in scoring by checklists and global rating forms.Conclusion: There is widespread disagreement on the superiority of checklist over global rating form. It is recommended that both scoring methods be used in combination to achieve maximum reliability and validity, to assess student skills based on objective criteria, to avoid applying assessor mentality, and to gain maximum validity in test results.
Javad Faryabi; Maryam Farzad; Neda Sinaee
Volume 6, Issue 1 , July 2009, , Pages 34-39
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Background & Objective : Clinical evaluation of medical students using OSCE has been introduced as an efficient way Nowadays this method is applied in some departments of Kerman School of Dentistry for clinical evaluation This research was conducted to assess the university students point ...
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Background & Objective : Clinical evaluation of medical students using OSCE has been introduced as an efficient way Nowadays this method is applied in some departments of Kerman School of Dentistry for clinical evaluation This research was conducted to assess the university students point of view about clinical evaluation using OSCE in Kerman University of Medical Sciences to inform educational authorities about present problems together with evaluating students opinions Methods : In this cross sectional study 89 dentistry students answered a questionnaire including 12 multiple choice questions and two open ended questions The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were already confirmed Results : According to the results of this study most of the students (786%) declared that holding practical final exams and clinical evaluation in the form of OSCE increased their stress Only 348% gave a positive reply to the question concerning whether OSCE is a useful clinical evaluation method 202 percent agreed with continuing OSCE and 613% were against it Conclusion : An increase in students stress could affect their disagreement with evaluation using OSCE Unlike students negative approach towards efficacy of holding OSCE and considering its global satisfactory results useful steps should be taken to improve OSCE and attract students satisfaction after solving pitfalls and making improvements Further studies are suggested to assess the efficacy of these actions
