The opinion of post graduate students on objective structured clinical examination in Anaesthesiology: A preliminary report

Jindal, Parul; Khurana, Gurjeet

doi:10.4103/0019-5049.177869

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“…Regarding the quality of OSCE performance, more than half the respondents reported being fully aware of the nature of the exam (54%), but scores for the remaining parameters were considerably low, ranging between 23.5% and 28.8%. This was in accordance with that found by Dharma in 2014, 23 and in contrast to the results of various other studies 18, 19, 24. Students' perception regarding the validity and reliability of OSCE scoring ranged between ‘neutral’ to ‘agree to a great extent’.…”

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Dental students' perception of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): The Taibah University experience, Almadinah Almunawwarah, KSA

Nazzawi¹

2018

Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences

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Objective The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an assessment tool used to objectively evaluate clinical competence in medical schools and, more recently, in the nursing profession as well. However, few studies have been conducted to elicit the views of dental students in KSA regarding the OSCE. The present study was designed to explore, evaluate, and analyse students' perceptions of the OSCE and to explore the strengths and weaknesses of this assessment tool as perceived by dental students. Methods This was a cross-sectional analytical observational study using a survey design. It took place in the College of Dentistry, Taibah University, KSA. The study sample consisted of third, fourth, and fifth-year students who took the OSCE assessment during their studies. Results Of 138 invited students, 119 responded (response rate of 86.2%). Almost half the students (47.1%) agreed that the OSCE exam was fair, while 19.3% agreed that a broad range of clinical skills were included in the OSCE exam. A low percentage of students believed to a great extent that the scores were standardised; however, the practicality and usefulness of the OSCE was questioned. Students perceived that issues pertaining to personality, ethnicity, and gender would not impact the scores. Conclusion The findings of this study indicated that the OSCE is a meaningful and fair assessment tool for clinical skills.

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Dental students' perception of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): The Taibah University experience, Almadinah Almunawwarah, KSA

Nazzawi¹

2018

Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences

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“…A similar difference of opinion was also observed between students (41.7%) and examiners (11.1%) in a study conducted by Omu et al11 in Kuwait. Some studies have raised concerns that time was a problem and suggested that they focus on restricting time but rather should concentrate on how well students can perform 38,39. However, Schoonheim-Klein et al40 demonstrated that increased time per station had no impact on student’s performance.…”

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<p>An evaluative study of objective structured clinical examination (OSCE): students and examiners perspectives</p>

Maa¹,

Kumar²,

Krishnamurthy³

et al. 2019

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Background: The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is the gold standard and universal format to assess the clinical competence of medical students in a comprehensive, reliable and valid manner. The clinical competence is assessed by a team of many examiners on various stations of the examination. Therefore, it is found to be a more complex, resource- and time-intensive assessment exercise compared to the traditional examinations. Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine the final year MBBS students’ and OSCE examiners’ perception on the attributes, quality, validity, reliability and organization of the Medicine and Therapeutics exit OSCE held at the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) in June 2017. Methods: At the end of the OSCE, students and examiners were provided with a questionnaire to obtain their views and comments about the OSCE. Due to the ordinal level of data produced by the Likert scale survey, statistical analysis was performed using the median, IQR and chi-square. Results: A total of 52 students and 22 examiners completed the questionnaire. The majority of the students provided positive views regarding the attributes (eg, fairness, administration, structure, sequence, and coverage of knowledge/clinical skills), quality (eg, awareness, instructions, tasks, and sequence of stations), validity and reliability (eg, true measure of essential clinical skills, standardized, practical and useful experiences), and organization (eg, orientation, timetable, announcements and quality of examination rooms) of the OSCE. Similarly, majority of the examiners expressed their satisfaction with organization, administration and process of OSCE. However, students expressed certain concerns such as stressful environment and difficulty level of OSCE. Conclusion: Overall, the OSCE was perceived very positively and welcomed by both the students and examiners. The concerns and challenges regarding OSCE can be overcome through better orientation of the faculty and preparation of the students for the OSCE.

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“…Indeed, we hope that the data presented here will enable higher powered studies to be conducted in the future. Finally, although OSCE style assessments are widely-regarded as the gold-standard method of clinical skills assessment [ 24 , 25 ], it must be remembered that they can never be truly representative of a hospital or ward environment [ 26 ].…”

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A pilot study to assess the utility of a freely downloadable mobile application simulator for undergraduate clinical skills training: a single-blinded, randomised controlled trial

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BackgroundMedical simulators offer an invaluable educational resource for medical trainees. However, owing to cost and portability restrictions, they have traditionally been limited to simulation centres. With the advent of sophisticated mobile technology, simulators have become cheaper and more accessible. Touch Surgery is one such freely downloadable mobile application simulator (MAS) used by over one million healthcare professionals worldwide. Nevertheless, to date, it has never been formally validated as an adjunct in undergraduate medical education.MethodsMedical students in the final 3 years of their programme were recruited and randomised to one of three revision interventions: 1) no formal revision resources, 2) traditional revision resources, or 3) MAS. Students completed pre-test questionnaires and were then assessed on their ability to complete an undisclosed male urinary catheterisation scenario. Following a one-hour quarantined revision period, all students repeated the scenario. Both attempts were scored by allocation-blinded examiners against an objective 46-point mark scheme.ResultsA total of 27 medical students were randomised (n = 9 per group). Mean scores improved between baseline and post-revision attempts by 8.7% (p = 0.003), 19.8% (p = 0.0001), and 15.9% (p = 0.001) for no resources, traditional resources, and MAS, respectively. However, when comparing mean score improvements between groups there were no significant differences.ConclusionsMobile simulators offer an unconventional, yet potentially useful adjunct to enhance undergraduate clinical skills education. Our results indicate that MAS’s perform comparably to current gold-standard revision resources; however, they may confer significant advantages in terms of cost-effectiveness and practice flexibility.Trial registrationNot applicable.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12909-017-1085-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The opinion of post graduate students on objective structured clinical examination in Anaesthesiology: A preliminary report

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Dental students' perception of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): The Taibah University experience, Almadinah Almunawwarah, KSA

Dental students' perception of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): The Taibah University experience, Almadinah Almunawwarah, KSA

<p>An evaluative study of objective structured clinical examination (OSCE): students and examiners perspectives</p>

A pilot study to assess the utility of a freely downloadable mobile application simulator for undergraduate clinical skills training: a single-blinded, randomised controlled trial

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