Twelve tips for developing an OSCE that measures what you want

Vijay John Daniels; Debra Pugh

doi:10.1080/0142159X.2017.1390214

Twelve tips for developing an OSCE that measures what you want

Med Teach. 2018 Dec;40(12):1208-1213. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2017.1390214. Epub 2017 Oct 25.

Authors

Vijay John Daniels¹, Debra Pugh²

Affiliations

¹ a Department of Medicine , University of Alberta , Edmonton , Canada.
² b Department of Medicine , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Canada.

PMID: 29069965
DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2017.1390214

Abstract

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is used globally for both high and low stakes assessment. Despite its extensive use, very few published articles provide a set of best practices for developing an OSCE, and of those that do, none apply a modern understanding of validity. This article provides 12 tips for developing an OSCE guided by Kane's validity framework to ensure the OSCE is assessing what it purports to measure. The 12 tips are presented in the order they would be operationalized during OSCE development.

MeSH terms

Clinical Competence / standards*
Education, Medical, Undergraduate / methods*
Educational Measurement / methods*
Educational Measurement / standards*
Humans
Learning
Physical Examination
Program Development
Reproducibility of Results
Students, Medical