Radiology as part of an objective structured clinical examination on clinical skills.

Autor: van den Berk IA; Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. i.a.h.van den berk@lumc.nl, van de Ridder JM, van Schaik JP
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European journal of radiology [Eur J Radiol] 2011 Jun; Vol. 78 (3), pp. 363-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2008 Dec 16.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.10.042
Abstrakt: Introduction: An objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) assesses clinical competence in a standardised and context related manner. Compared with written tests, OSCE's are more susceptible to reliability errors because of the use of multiple cases and multiple examiners. In the pre-clinical phase of the medical curriculum of the University Medical Centre Utrecht, an OSCE is organised as a medical consult. We evaluated the radiology station.
Method: Four questions were formulated: We analysed the OSCE results of second year medical students in 2004.
Results: Two hundred and sixty-five students were examined in the OSCE in 2004. Ninety-three Students were examined in the radiology station. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the radiology station was 0.92. The average score for the radiology station was 3.8 (0.87). The average score for the test without radiology was 3.9 (0.32). The range of the average scores for the six different cases was 0.5 (3.6-4.1). The range of the average scores for the five examiners was 1.0 (3.3-4.3).
Conclusion: The internal consistency of the items in the radiology station is good. The average score for the radiology station is similar to that of the other stations. The range of the scores between the different cases was relatively small. The range of the scores between the different examiners was clearly larger.
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