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Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica
Print version ISSN 0100-5502On-line version ISSN 1981-5271
Abstract
CASSIANO, Matheus Santarosa; PASSERI, Silvia Maria Riceto Ronchim and LUTAIF, Nelson Afonso. Reality or simulation? Performance analysis of medical students through different practical assessments. Rev. Bras. Educ. Med. [online]. 2021, vol.45, n.1, e008. Epub Jan 15, 2021. ISSN 1981-5271. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-5271v45.1-20200173.
Introduction:
Assessing clinical skills represents a challenge in medical training. The heterogeneity in the selection of patients associated to a lack of objective criteria has resulted in a methodological shift toward using the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).
Objective:
This study aimed to identify whether the OSCE results in a Gaussian frequency distribution of performance assessment marks compared to the traditional model.
Method:
239 students from the Semiotics module of the medicine course between 2016 (traditional model) and 2017 (OSCE) were analyzed using the two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Student’s t-test for correlation with the performance coefficient (PC).
Results:
The test scores in the traditional model (p<0.0001; KS = 0.1881) are more discrepant in relation to the normal distribution than the OSCE test scores (p=0.0010; KS=0.1134) and show more correlation with the PC (p <0.0001; r = 0.45) than the OSCE model (p = 0.31; r=0.06).
Conclusion:
OSCE might provide a more accurate assessment of a student’s performance during medical internship.
Keywords : Educational Measurement; Medical Education; Academic Performance.
