| Título: | Association of the pre-internship objective structured clinical examination in final year medical students with comprehensive written examinations |
| Autores: |
Eftekhar, Hasan; Department of Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Health Center for Community based Participatory Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Labaf, Ali; Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Clinical Skills Development Center, Medical Faculty, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Anvari, Pasha; Students' Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Jamali, Arsia; Students' Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Sheybaee-Moghaddam, Farshad; Students' Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. |
| Fecha: | 2012-02-16 |
| Publicador: | Medical Education Online |
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| Tema: | OSCE; clinical skills; written examination; reliability; validity |
| Descripción: | Aim: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association of the pre-internship Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in final year medical students with comprehensive written examinations. Subjects and material: All medical students of October 2004 admission who took part in the October 2010 National Comprehensive Pre-internship Examination (NCPE) and pre-internship OSCE were included in the study (n=130). OSCE and NCPE scores and medical grade point average (GPA) were collected. Results: GPA was highly correlated with NCPE (r=0.76 and P<0.001) and moderately with OSCE (r=0.68 and P<0.001). Similarly a moderate correlation was observed between NCPE and OSCE scores(r=0.6 and P<0.001).Linear stepwise regression shows r2 of a model applying GPA as predictor of OSCE score is 0.46 (β=0.68 and P<0.001), while addition of gender to the model increases r2 to 0.59 (β=0.61 and 0.36, for GPA and male gender, respectively and P<0.001). Logistic forward regression models shows male gender and GPA are the only dependent predictors of high score in OSCE. OR of GPA and male gender for high OSCE score are 4.89 (95% CI=2.37–10.06) and 6.95 (95% CI=2.00–24.21), respectively (P<0.001). Discussion: Our findings indicate OSCE and examination which mainly evaluate knowledge, judged by GPA and NCPE are moderately to highly correlated. Our results illustrate the interwoven nature of knowledge and clinical skills. In other words, certain level of knowledge is crucial for appropriate clinical performance. Our findings suggest neither OSCE nor written forms of assessments can replace each other. They are complimentary and should also be combined by other evaluations to cover all attributes of clinical competence efficiently.Keywords: OSCE; clinical skills; written examination; reliability; validity(Published: 24 April 2012)Citation: Med Educ Online 2012, 17: 15958 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v17i0.15958 |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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