Do clinical clerks provide candidates with adequate formative assessment during Objective Structured Clinical Examinations?
CONTEXT: Various research studies have examined the question of whether expert or non-expert raters, faculty or students, evaluators or standardized patients, give more reliable and valid summative assessments of performance on Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs). Less studied has been the question of whether or not non-faculty raters can provide formative feedback that allows students to take advantage of the educational opportunity that OSCEs provide. This question is becoming increasingly important, however, as the strain on faculty resources increases. METHODS: A questionnaire was developed to assess the quality of feedback that medical examiners provide during OSCEs. It was pilot tested for reliability using video recordings of OSCE performances. The questionnaires were then used to evaluate the feedback given during an actual OSCE in which clinical clerks, residents, and faculty were used as examiners on two randomly selected test stations. RESULTS: The inter-rater
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