Evaluation of student’s competencies on Social Medicine internship with the Objective Structured Clinical Examination method

Authors : Aouatef Mahfoudh KRAIEM, Charfeddine AMRI, Sana EL MHAMDI, Asma BOUSRIHA, Nidhal HAJ SALEM, Taoufik KHALFALLAH

Pages : 21-33

Doi:10.24331/ijere.327605

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Publication Date : 2017-07-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aim of the current study is to evaluate OSCE insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Objective Structured Clinical Examination); stations elaborated to asses competencies of external students on the 5th year of Social Medicine internship at the Faculty of Medicine of Monastir, in Tunisia, carried out over a year. The total number of OSCE stations was 32 with an average of 5.3 ± 2.3 stations per session, each station lasting five minutes. More than half of OSCE stations were a clinical vignette type insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(68.7%);, followed by photo-type stations in 8 cases insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(25%);. The total number of tasks required was 76.The number of stations about a single task was 18.75%. Morethan two-thirds of tasks involved competencies of cognitive level type III insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(72.1%);. The number of elements per correction grid varied between 4 and 10 with an average of 6.44 ± 1.8 elements. At the end of the different examination sessions, the success rate was low insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(15-19 / 30); for 61% of learners with a discrimination index -0.41 and a difficulty index of tests 66%. These results attest the feasibility of OSCE stations for evaluation of skills in medical specialty. However, a regular and more thorough evaluation of this method is necessary in order to promote skills of future general practitioner.
Keywords : Students, internship, techniques, education

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