Construct Validity of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in Psychiatry: Associations With the Clinical Skills Examination and Other Indicators

Abstract

Evidence of construct validity of a psychiatry OSCE was obtained from multiple measures of performance, including the clinical skills examination. Findings lend support to the continued use of checklist and global process evaluations as part of OSCEs in psychiatry.

Reliability and validity of OSCE checklists used to assess the communication skills of undergraduate medical students: A systematic review

“…Four studies reported short and long case scenarios with obviously different durations [11,31,32,37], in contrast to nine studies which did not report station length at all [15,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. Sixteen studies reported references to validity and reliability studies of the assessment forms being used [11,15,24,26,27,30,39,40,[42][43][44][45][46][52][53][54], whilst six studies reported only validity ( [31,33,37,50,55], and twelve reported only reliability [25,28,32,[34][35][36]38,41,[47][48][49]51]. Two studies compared assessments of medical student CS across different institutions [4...…”

“…The included studies involved participants across the range of 1st year to final year. Sixteen studies report upon the assessment of 3 rd year students [15,[25][26][27]29,31,34,[36][37][38]41,47,[51][52][53][54], and six studies reported upon more than one year of study [11,15,31,37,40,54]. In two studies students were assessed only by SP raters.…”

An exploratory trial exploring the use of a multiple intelligences teaching approach (MITA) for teaching clinical skills to first year undergraduate nursing students

“…Lack of validity using a simulated approach during OSCEs has been recognised as problematic Park et al 2004). …”

Praxisorientierte Prüfungen in den „Psychosozialen Fächern“

“…[18]. Durch Variabilität der Länge und Komplexität der Prüfungsstationen und der einstudierten Rollen lassen sich kommunikative, soziale und differenzialdiagnostische Fertigkeiten von Medizinstudierenden auf sehr unterschiedlichem Niveau prüfen [13].…”