Pettit Matthew, Shukla Shivani, Zhang James, Sunil Kumar Karadi Hari, Khanduja Vikas
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Bone Jt Open. 2021 Feb;2(2):111-118. doi: 10.1302/2633-1462.22.BJO-2020-0142.R1.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and delayed medical and surgical examinations where attendance is required in person. Our article aims to outline the validity of online assessment, the range of benefits to both candidate and assessor, and the challenges to its implementation. In addition, we propose pragmatic suggestions for its introduction into medical assessment.
We reviewed the literature concerning the present status of online medical and surgical assessment to establish the perceived benefits, limitations, and potential problems with this method of assessment.
Global experience with online, remote virtual examination has been largely successful with many benefits conferred to the trainee, and both an economic and logistical advantage conferred to the assessor or organization. Advances in online examination software and remote proctoring are overcoming practical caveats including candidate authentication, cheating prevention, cybersecurity, and IT failure.
Virtual assessment provides benefits to both trainee and assessor in medical and surgical examinations and may also result in cost savings. Virtual assessment is likely to be increasingly used in the post-COVID world and we present recommendations for the continued adoption of virtual examination. It is, however, currently unable to completely replace clinical assessment of trainees. Cite this article: 2021;2(2):111-118.
持续的新冠疫情扰乱并推迟了需要亲自到场的医学及外科检查。我们的文章旨在概述在线评估的有效性、对考生和评估者的一系列益处以及实施过程中面临的挑战。此外，我们针对将其引入医学评估提出切实可行的建议。
我们回顾了有关在线医学及外科评估现状的文献，以确定这种评估方法的已知益处、局限性和潜在问题。
全球范围内在线远程虚拟考试的经验总体上是成功的，给学员带来了诸多益处，给评估者或机构带来了经济和后勤方面的优势。在线考试软件和远程监考的进步正在克服实际的限制因素，包括考生身份验证、防止作弊、网络安全和信息技术故障。
虚拟评估在医学和外科考试中给学员和评估者都带来了益处，还可能节省成本。在新冠疫情后的世界，虚拟评估可能会越来越多地被使用，我们针对持续采用虚拟考试提出了建议。然而，目前它尚无法完全取代对学员的临床评估。引用本文：2021;2(2):111 - 118。
