In the minds of OSCE examiners: uncovering hidden assumptions

• Published in: Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 609 - 625
• Main Authors: Chahine, Saad, Holmes, Bruce, Kowalewski, Zbigniew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2016; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Administration; Clinical Competence - standards; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive Processes; College Graduates; Communication Skills; Competence; Counseling; Education; Education, Medical - standards; Educational Measurement - methods; Educational Measurement - standards; Evaluators; Examiners; Foreign Countries; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Humans; Interviews; Interviews as Topic; Licensing Examinations (Professions); Linear Models; Logistic Models; Medical Education; Medical Students; Mixed Methods Research; Nova Scotia; Predictor Variables; Professionalism; Reproducibility of Results; Scores; Sequential Learning; Student Evaluation; Canada; Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM); Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE); Rater cognition; Assessment; Cognitive interview; Practice-ready; International Medical Graduate (IMG)

The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) is a widely used method of assessment in medical education. Rater cognition has become an important area of inquiry in the medical education assessment literature generally, and in the OSCE literature specifically, because of concerns about potential com...