BACKGROUND Internationally, tests of general mental ability are used in the selection of medical students. Examples include the Medical College Admission Test, Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test and the UK Clinical Aptitude Test. The most widely used measure of their efficacy is predictive validity.A new tool, the Health Professions Admission Test- Ireland (HPAT-Ireland),...

BACKGROUND Peer-assisted learning (PAL) refers to a learning activity whereby students of similar academic level teach and learn from one another. Groupe de perfectionnement des habiletés cliniques (Clinical Skills Improvement Group), a student organization at Université Laval, Canada, propelled PAL into the digital era by creating a collaborative virtual patient platform. Medical interviews ca...

Background: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is one of the best methods for evaluating the achievement of educational objectives and cognitive, emotional and psycho-motor aspects of medical students. The main purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of OSCE method in evaluating knowledge and clinical practices of midwifery students in the courses of ph...

BACKGROUND Exams are essential components of medical students' knowledge and skill assessment during their clinical years of study. The paper provides a retrospective analysis of validity evidence for the internal medicine component of the written and clinical exams administered in 2012 and 2013 at King Abdulaziz University's Faculty of Medicine. METHODS Students' scores for the clinical and ...

Background: OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) is a standard method of testing declarative and process knowledge in clinical core competencies. It is desirable that students undergo OSCE training before participating in the exam. However, establishing OSCE training is resource intensive and often limited in practice time. Web-based immersive patient simulators like ALICE (Artifici...

mediciNe & HealtH/RHode islaNd An Objective structured clinicAl Examination (OSCE) is a performance assessment that enables medical educators to evaluate the clinical skills and professionalism of future physicians. At the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (AMS), there are multiple OSCEs in the first two years of the Doctoring course, in the Clinical Skills Clerkship and in three...

Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) merupakan metode untuk menguji kompetensi klinik secara objektif dan terstruktur dalam bentuk putaran/station dengan waktu tertentu. Artikel ini berupaya memberikan gambaran penjelasan terkait program pelatihan OSCE standar nasional komprehensif terhadap pengetahuan dosen. Penulisan artikel menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif model deskriptif-anal...