Objective: To describe the process and development of a Virtual Objective Structured Clinical Examination (V-OSCE), and the perception of this virtual evaluation through a survey aimed at fifth-year students from a Peruvian medical school.Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional study. The V-OSCE was held between August and September 2020 using the Zoom® platform (Zoom Video Communications, Inc., San José, California, USA). The students completed five stations, which included clinical scenarios of endocrine, rheumatic, gastrointestinal, and hematologic pathologies. Standardized simulated patients were used. An anonymous Likert scale survey was conducted among students with Google Forms (Google LLC, Mountain View, California, USA), and the data were analyzed with STATA® 16 (StataCorp LLC, College Station, Texas, USA). Results: Of the 145 students who participated in the V-OSCE, 85% perceived that the evaluation met their expectations as a learning tool, 81.7% stated that it allowed them to put the acquired knowledge into practice, and 89.2% rated the quality of the organization and development of the V-OSCE as "excellent" or "good". However, 13.3% perceived that the greatest limitation was not being able to perform the physical examination in person.Conclusions: The V-OSCE constitutes a good evaluation tool for medical students. Although it does not replace face-to-face evaluation, it is a very useful instrument for evaluating scenarios that emphasize on anamnesis. It is a safe and efficient evaluation alternative in the context of the pandemic.
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