This article in the Medical Education series provides a conceptual framework for and a brief
update on commonly used and emerging methods of assessment, discusses the strengths …

Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been used to assess medical students
since the mid 1970s, and in more recent years has been increasingly utilised to assess …

In this paper, the state of research on the assessment of competencies in higher education is
reviewed. Fundamental conceptual and methodological issues are clarified by showing that …

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was first described by Harden in
1975 as an alternative to the existing methods of assessing clinical performance (Harden et …

Purpose Most assessment of surgical trainees is based on measures of knowledge, with
limited evaluation of their competence to actually perform various surgical procedures. In …

A “toolkit” for professional psychology to assess student and practitioner competence is
presented. This toolkit builds on a growing and long history of competency initiatives in …

It has become increasingly apparent that no single method for teaching anatomy is able to
provide supremacy over another. In an effort to consolidate and enhance learning, a …

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Background Central to clinical education is the teaching–learning (TL) relationship that
evolves between the clinical educator (CE) and the student. Within this TL relationship, CEs …

What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Little is known on how best to
train the future generation of robotic surgeons. It has been postulated that virtual reality (VR) …