Korean J Med Educ.  2001 May;13(1):47-57.

An Experience of OSCE for Introducing Clinical Performance Assessment to Korean Medical Licensure Examination

• Lee YM
• Hwang K
• Baik SH
• Hong MH
• Choi YS
• Kim SH

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Evaluation of clinical performance is an essential area of Medical Licensure Examination. Yet, clinical skills has been neither uniformly well taught nor adequately assessed. This study was done as a part of preliminary study to introduce clinical performance assessment to Korean Medical Licensure Examination. The goals of this study were to identify the potential logistic problems and to examine the feasibility of OSCE to Medical Licensure Examination.
METHODS
48 minutes long OSCE, which consist of eight 5-minute stations, was developed. The same examination was administered to students over a four-week period.
RESULTS
Total 26 volunteer fourth-year medical students were tested. 11 students were examined at the first administration and the rest of them were evaluated four-week later. Cronbach alpha of the total stations was 0.52. Any big administration problems were not revealed. There was no significant total score difference between early examinee and later ones. Students evaluated the OSCE contents and process positively.
CONCLUSION
To acquire more reliable and valid examination, we need to develop more objective checklist and evaluator and SP training.

Keyword

OSCE; Clinical performance assessment

MeSH Terms

Checklist
Clinical Competence
Humans
Licensure, Medical*
Students, Medical
Volunteers