Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCEs) is a form of performance-based testing used to measure candidates’ clinical competence. During an OSCE, candidates are observed and evaluated as they go through a series of stations in which they interview, examine and treat standardized patients (SP) who present with some type of medical problem.
The hallway of OSCE exam rooms, each occupied by a uniquely challenging patient, is a familiar milieu to the physician or other healthcare professional. When standardized patients (SPs) are utilized in OSCE exams, the linear sequence of the multiple station and skill challenges bears the remarkable similarity to that real environment.
“The OSCE is an approach to the assessment of clinical competence in which the components of competence are assessed in a planned or structured way with attention being paid to the objectivity of the examination” Harden, 1988.
OSCE is a form of multi-station examination for clinical subjects first described by Harden et al from Dundee (1975).
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