The Diploma in Family Medicine (DFM) Examination is a new certification offered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan, and its Department of Medical Education designed a scientific examination. First, the Expert Advisory Committee for Family Medicine was formed, relevant training objectives were determined, a training programme to achieve the objectives was designed and a valid ...

Objective: The study aimed to (1) determine if standardised patient (SP) assessment of student communication differs from faculty and (2) identify factors that may affect their scoring since differences between evaluator could impact students’ learning feedback. Methods: Students completed four OSCEs in spring 2022. Communication skills were scored using a global rubric by evaluator, SP, studen...

BACKGROUND Delivering IUD services is one of the important competencies that midwifery students must obtain during academic period. As Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) can be reasonably reliable, valid and objective method for clinical skills assessment, this study was conducted to assess midwifery students' skill in delivering intrauterine device (IUD) services using a clinical...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between student performance in undergraduate objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) and the examination schedule to which they were assigned to undertake these examinations. DESIGN Analysis of routinely collected data. SETTING One UK medical school. PARTICIPANTS 2331 OSCEs of 3 different types (obstetrics OSCE, paediatrics OSCE and simu...