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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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Challenges of objective structured clinical examination as a tool in medical assessment
Priyamadhaba Behera1, Gokul Gopi2, Archana Siddaiah3, Pooja R Sridhar4, Binod Kumar Patro1, Sonu Hangma Subba1
1 Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2 The Brooklyn Hospital Center, New York, USA
3 Department of Community Health, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
4 Department of Community Health, St. John's Medical College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Priyamadhaba Behera
Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar - 751 019, Odisha
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijcfm.ijcfm_12_22
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Medical education is witnessing changes across the globe to produce more competent and responsive medical graduates to meet patients' growing needs. Medical educators are aspiring for more objective and relevant assessment methods for the evaluation of medical graduates. Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) introduced in the year 1975 for clinical evaluation has gone through many changes over the past 45 years and matured over time. The article describes the challenges of OSCE as a tool in medical assessment from students' and organizers' perspectives. We have also suggested a feasible solution to address the challenges while conducting OSCE to assess medical students.
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