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The objective structured clinical examination in undergraduate psychiatry
Author(s) -
FAMUYIWA O. O.,
ZACHARIAH M. P.,
ILECHUKWU S. T. C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1991.tb00025.x
Subject(s) - objective structured clinical examination , popularity , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , personality , medical education , clinical psychology , quality (philosophy) , applied psychology , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , power (physics) , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
Summary. Inadequate attention has been given to verifying the psychometric attributes of the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), yet its popularity has been increasing in recent years. Our 6 years' experience in Nigeria showed that OSCE is practicable in undergraduate psychiatry assessment and there is evidence over consecutive years that it has satisfactory reliability and criterion‐based validity. The importance of students' feedback in assessing the quality of examination is reinforced, and subtle, less tangible elements which determine students' performance, such as social interactional mystique and some personality traits, are worthy of evaluative research.