OBJECTIVE To determine perceptions of final year students about observed structured clinical examination (OSCE) and to determine its acceptance among these students. STUDY DESIGN Sequential mixed method design using survey questionnair and in-depth interviews. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The study constituted a one-time survey and in-depth interviews conducted over a period of three consecu...

BACKGROUND Distance education methods have taken on greater importance as medical student education has moved off campus into the community. What the best methods are for conveying information to students at distant sites has not been determined. OBJECTIVE To determine if students at distant community sites who received an otitis media study case by e-mail that was enhanced with a referral to...

introduction. evaluation is one of the most important phase in educational (teaching) system. during evaluation, the student scale (rate) of learning is discovered. in this study we tried to substitute a new method called the final functional evaluation, that is mostly popular to a code – name osce. methods. this is a descriptive – comparative study. the statistical population are the family he...

Introduction. Evaluation is one of the most important phase in educational (teaching) system. During evaluation, the student scale (rate) of learning is discovered. In this study we tried to substitute a new method called the final functional evaluation, that is mostly popular to a code – name OSCE. Methods. This is a descriptive – comparative study. The statistical population are the family h...

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) offers several opportunities for effective feedback to be given students improve their performance. This study aimed evaluate the practices following OSCE in University of Port Harcourt (Uniport). was descriptive research involving administration semi-structured questionnaires examiners Faculty Sciences and final year medical Uniport. Informa...

We would like to begin by thanking Reid et al. for their captivating paper ‘Taking OSCE Examiner Training On The Road: Reaching The Masses’ [1]. As senior year medical students we read this article with keen interest and share the belief that further development of systematic examiner training will result in fairer, more objective clinical assessments. Moreover, we believe that transparency alo...