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Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) as a reliable evaluation strategy evidence from a Brazilian Medical School
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CASTELLANI, Luciana et al. Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) as a reliable evaluation strategy evidence from a Brazilian Medical School. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, v. 78, n. 5, p. 674-687, 2020.
1822-7864
Autor
Castellani, Luciana
Quintanilha, Luiz Fernando
Arriaga Gutiérrez, María Belen
Lima, Maria de Lourdes
Andrade, Bruno de Bezerril
Resumen
The new curriculum of medical schools has brought the need to develop a professional committed to ethics,
capable of understanding the role of social factors, the insertion of the individual into the family and their
role in promoting health. These skills and the use of new methodologies in teaching-learning process have
demonstrated that the traditional performance assessment methods are limited in holistically evaluating
the student. This study analyzed the correlation among different methods for evaluating competencies in
medical internship students and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). A cross-sectional,
descriptive and analytical study was performed among 5th year medical students at Pediatric, Surgery,
Medical Clinic, Family and Community Medicine and Gynecology and Obstetrics. Grades of each student
obtained through different evaluations (theoretical test, conceptual evaluation and test skills) at the end
of each rotation were correlated with the individual results from OSCE. In regard to correlations with the
OSCE score values, it was found a weak to moderate positive and statistically significant relationship with
the global cognitive score (r= .22, p< .001), global abilities score (r= .26, p< .001) and with the global
behavioral score (r= .38, p< .001). The students' performance in the various assessments of performance
evaluated here was positively correlated to their performance on OSCE. Furthermore, the organization
of an OSCE-type assessment prepared in multiple, committed and competent hands may serve as a unique
assessment and, in fact, assess the development of clinical skills for future doctors