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Objective Structured Clinical Exams

Oct 13, 2014

in Assessment

assessment, clinical assessment, medical assessment, medical education, objective assessment, objective structured clinical exam, objective structured clinical examination, objective structured practical exam, osce, ospe, performance-based assessment, practical assessment

This is the first draft of the next piece of content that I’ll be publishing in my Clinical Teacher app. Abstract The Objective Structured Clinical Examination was introduced as an assessment method that aimed to address some of the challenges that arose with the assessment of students’ competence in clinical skills. In a traditional clinical…
SAFRI 2011 (session 2) – day 4

Jun 29, 2011

in Assessment, Curriculum, Education, Research, Teaching

angoff method, assessment, clinical assessment, faimer, mini-cex, objective structured clinical exam, osce, reliability, safri, standard setting, validity

Reliability and validity Validity Important for assessment, not only for research It’s the scores that are valid and reliable, not the instrument Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of the parts e.g. when a student gets all the check marks but doesn’t perform competently overall e.g. the examiner can tick each competency being…