The Reliability of 2-Station Clerkship Objective Structured Clinical Examinations in Isolation and in Aggregate

Lead author: Aaron W. Bernard
Submitted by Kathy Herzberger, Loma Linda School of Medicine

The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine established 2-station OSCEs at the end of each clerkship to determine if these could replace the 5-7 station end-of-third-year examinations that are more common among medical schools. The goal was to assess reliability of these OSCEs in isolation, as well as in aggregate. They concluded that 2-station clerkship OSCEs have poor-to-fair reliability, but the aggregating data from all six of the clerkship OSCEs resulted in good reliability. Their article provides a nice discussion of their methods, experience, and findings. As a school that runs an OSCE after every clerkship I found their article interesting and applicable.

Read the full article in Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development here.

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