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The consistency and uncertainty in examiners' definitions of pass/fail performance on OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) stations.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  10186899     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The Medical Council of Canada has made use of examiners' pass/fail classifications of candidates' behaviors in objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) stations in defining cutting scores for these stations. This process assumes that there is consistency in the judgments of examiners employed in the same stations at different testing sites and in the cutting scores derived from these judgments. These assumptions were tested using the results of the fall 1993 administration of part 2 of the Medical Council of Canada's Evaluating Examination to 744 candidates. The results of this study provided evidence of the consistency of the pass/fail and cutting score definitions for the stations used across examiners.
Authors:
A I Rothman; D Blackmore; R Cohen; R Reznick
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Evaluation & the health professions     Volume:  19     ISSN:  0163-2787     ISO Abbreviation:  Eval Health Prof     Publication Date:  1996 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1998-11-05     Completed Date:  1998-11-05     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7805992     Medline TA:  Eval Health Prof     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  118-24     Citation Subset:  T    
Affiliation:
University of Toronto.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Canada
Clinical Competence / standards*
Education, Medical, Undergraduate*
Educational Measurement / methods,  standards*
Faculty, Medical
Humans
Observer Variation
Patient Simulation

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