Assessment of Perceptions and Challenges of Objective Structured Clinical Examination Among Medical Students and Examiners: A Cross-Sectional Study At College of Health Science, Addis Ababa University
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2024-12-13
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: In the modern context, OSCE is one of the competency-based skill assessment tools in which fairly sampled clinical tasks or skills across learned outcomes are represented in several stations where all examinees are observed against standardized scoring rubrics in a simulated environment. OSCEs have gained acceptance globally due to their emphasis on objectivity and their ability to assess cognitive skills, practical abilities, and professional conduct. OSCE is a resource-demanding, time-intensive, and complex assessment
method. Therefore, assessing the perceptions and challenges associated with OSCEs from both the students and examiners in our setup will help to improve the gap in the assessment of clinical competence by OSCE since this method of assessment is relatively new in the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, as well as in Ethiopia.
Objective: The study aims to assess the Perceptions and challenges of OSCE in the undergraduate medicine program among medical students and examiners at the School of Medicine, AAU.
Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the perceptions and challenges of OSCE among both medical interns and examiners at CHS, AAU from May 1, 2024 – August 31, 2024. Data was collected using a questionnaire adopted and points were in a Likert scale—descriptive statistics such as percentages, means, standard deviations (SD), IQR and median. Mann-Whitney U-Test used to compare variables, with P
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Objective structured clinical Examination (OSCE) OSCE experience OSCE perception OSCE perception OSCE challengeExaminersMedical Studentsand Assessment Methods