Korean J Med Educ.
2008 Dec;20(4):343-349.
Introduction of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to Residency Examination
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Medical Education, Obstetrics, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea.
- 2Department of Gynecology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea. sbko@cu.ac.kr
Abstract
- PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to analyze the development and implementation of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for the residency applicant examination at Daegu-Catholic Hospital. METHODS: Fifty-four Daegu-Catholic residency applicants were evaluated by written examination, internship scores, and OSCE. The correlation between written examination scores, internship scores, and OSCE scores was assessed. RESULTS: The correlation between OSCE and internship scores showed a tendency to be more significant than that between the written test and internship scores, but OSCE-internship correlation coefficients and written test and internship correlation coefficients was not statistically significant. The distribution of OSCE and internship scores on a graph corroborated this relationship between the two variables. CONCLUSION: The OSCE presents more objective criteria for residency application tests.