Onwudiegwu U
Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology, Obafemi Awolowo University.
J West Afr Coll Surg. 2018 Jan-Mar;8(1):1-22.
OSCE - Objective Structured Clinical Examination - as an examination format was developed by Harden and colleagues in 1975 as an answer to the oft-criticised traditional long case clinical examination which was judged to have low psychometric properties. Since then it has received wide acceptance globally as an objective form of assessing clinical competences both at the undergraduate and post graduate levels. Despite this wide acceptability and usage, many medical institutions in the West African sub region are yet to embrace this reality. However there has been a renaissance of interest in the past decade within the sub region such that medical assessments at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels are increasingly adopting the OSCE system. A lot of training and capacity building need to be done. It is in the light of this that a comprehensible and moderately comprehensive document has been developed for the benefit of medical teachers and examiners in the West African sub region.
This document aims to provide the medical teachers and examiners in the West African sub region a valuable, easily understood OSCE document that will facilitate their understanding and use of OSCE as an assessment tool, based on wide experience of use, capacity building and establishment of the format in medical schools and postgraduate institutions in the sub region.
A widespread relevant literature search using different search platforms was conducted to identify published works, monograms and workshop manuals that met the aim and objectives targeted.
Out of numerous publications, most of which highlighted the works of the original authors of OSCE, others qualitatively comparing the OSCE and traditional examinations, a few others quantitatively comparing OSCE and the traditional examination and yet others examining aspects of cost and security, this document is a distillate of all the above, such that the reader is well engaged to obtain a balanced coverage of the subject.
An OSCE document comprehensively but compactly presented is made available for trainers and examiners in West African sub region and which easily serves as a reference document to facilitate and improve the quality of OSCE assessments in the sub region.
客观结构化临床考试（OSCE）作为一种考试形式，由哈登及其同事于1975年开发，旨在应对常受批评的传统长病例临床考试，后者被认为心理测量学特性较差。从那时起，它作为一种评估本科和研究生临床能力的客观形式在全球范围内得到了广泛认可。尽管其具有广泛的可接受性和应用，但西非次区域的许多医疗机构尚未接受这一现实。然而，在过去十年中，该次区域重新产生了兴趣，以至于本科和研究生阶段的医学评估越来越多地采用OSCE系统。还需要进行大量的培训和能力建设。鉴于此，为了西非次区域的医学教师和考官，已编写了一份易于理解且适度全面的文件。
本文件旨在为西非次区域的医学教师和考官提供一份有价值且易于理解的OSCE文件，基于在该次区域医学院校和研究生机构中对OSCE的广泛使用经验、能力建设和形式确立，促进他们对OSCE作为一种评估工具的理解和使用。
使用不同的搜索平台进行了广泛的相关文献检索，以识别符合目标的已发表作品、专题论文和工作坊手册。
在众多出版物中，大多数强调了OSCE的原始作者的作品，其他一些对OSCE和传统考试进行了定性比较，还有一些对OSCE和传统考试进行了定量比较，另外一些则研究了成本和安全性等方面，本文件是上述所有内容的精华，使读者能够全面且平衡地了解该主题。
为西非次区域的培训人员和考官提供了一份全面但简洁呈现的OSCE文件，该文件可轻松作为参考文件，以促进和提高该次区域OSCE评估的质量。
