Comparison of the objective structured clinical examination with the performance of third-year medical students in surgery

Using Elements from an Acute Abdominal Pain Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Leads to More Standardized Grading in the Surgical Clerkship for Third-Year Medical Students

“…This result is consistent with the Merrick et al study results of performance of an ungraded OSCE being different among grading groups for third-year medical students in the surgical clerkship. 13 Even though there were 6 stations involving focused history taking and 4 stations involving focused physical examination, with 17-20 total stations performed in the OSCE of that study, our conclusions are similar.…”

“…The OSCE can evaluate clinical ability in an objective and standardized manner. 13 At our institution, variability exists in the number of evaluations that the students receive on each service in the Surgery and Perioperative Care Clerkship from untrained service faculty and residents (historical median ϭ 3) and evidence in the literature indicates that evaluations in the domains of patient interaction and general knowledge base are poorly reliable using Likert-based scales. Objective data from the 3 trained standardized patients during the OSCE session would lead to improved accuracy in assessing medical student patient interaction and general knowledge base.…”

Evaluation of the use of patient-focused simulation for student assessment in a surgery clerkship

“…5 A 2007 survey reporting the most important characteristics of surgery clerkships in North America revealed that 38% of US schools and 69% of Canadian schools used OSCEs for student assessment. 6 Although there have been numerous published reports of the use of simulated patients to assess surgical residents, [7][8][9][10] and medical students in surgical clerkships, [11][12][13] there has been less attention directed toward the assessment of trainees' surgical skills, and the related development of OSCE stations that combine both simulated patients and simulation models. [14][15][16][17] Naylor et al recently reported on the use of simulation models to assess skills proficiency, 18 and LeBlanc et al reported on a study of 16 medical students and residents in a validation of an integrated assessment of third-year students' technical and communication skills.…”

Differential Diagnosis in a 3-Station Acute Abdominal Pain Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): A Needs Assessment in Third-Year Medical Student Performance and Summative Evaluation in the Surgical Clerkship

“…8 In the third year surgical clerkship, 1 study of an ungraded OSCE showed a high correlation of OSCE performance with the final clerkship grade. 9 Medical students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine take an ungraded 3-station acute abdominal pain OSCE during the second half of the 8-week SPCC. The OSCE cases were written and edited by Board-certified general surgeons.…”