A few words about this paper… It was not long after we implemented our OSCE Management Information System within the School of Medicine in the National University of Ireland, Galway, that our colleagues from the School of Nursing started to use the system. Moreover, as nurses embed solid practice in their research, the purpose of […]
An Online Management Information System for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations
A few words about this paper… During 2006 – 2008, David Cunningham, as an intern, and myself as a lecturer, were engaged with teaching & learning in the National University of Ireland, Galway, in the School of Medicine (Medical Informatics & Medical Education in those days). Our OSCE procedures involving the planning and execution of […]
Back to the Future 1: Electronic Marking of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations and Admission Interviews Using an Online Management Information System in Schools of Health Sciences
A few words on this paper… ‘Back to the Future’ refers to the 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis, featuring Micheal J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly. Marty, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick […]
Reliability and validity of OSCE checklists used to assess the communication skills of undergraduate medical students: A systematic review
A few words about this paper… In 2011, Winny from Indonesia approached me to ask whether he could join us for a PhD track. It would be an opportunity to investigate the wide range of communications stations used within our School of Medicine. Data was collected using our OSCE Management Information System. A systematic review […]
Calibration of Communication Skills Items in OSCE Checklists according to the MAAS-Global
A few words about this paper… After the discovery that about 17 different styles of communications skills are used in the field of communication skills training in medical education, it was apparent we needed to validate the communication skills items included in OSCE checklists. Within our own School of Medicine, in the College of Medicine, […]
The fairness, predictive validity and acceptability of multiple mini interview in an internationally diverse student population- a mixed methods study
A few words about this paper… For the Irish and moreover in an international context, an important paper written by my colleague in the School of Medicine/National University of Ireland, Galway, Dr Maureen Kelly. Once multiple-mini-interviews were made available in an electronic fashion, data retrieval, storage and analysis appeared more accessible than collecting all data […]
True communication skills assessment in interdepartmental OSCE stations: Standard setting using the MAAS-Global and EduG
A few words about this paper… In medical education it is extremely helpful to compare outcomes. To be able to compare communication skills outcomes between students, years of study or between institutions is very challenging. If the measurement of particular learning outcomes is not standardised, just as using a standardised measurement tape to measure length, […]
Measuring situation awareness in medical education objective structured clinical examination guides
A few words about this paper… This paper was written by two undergraduate medical students. This is another good example of student participation in undergraduate medical education research. John and Margaret performed a pilot according to Markus’s initial observation that aspects of Situation Awareness could be measured in OSCEs. Both students used the station OSCE […]
Situational awareness within objective structured clinical examination stations in undergraduate medical training – A literature search
A few words about this paper… A great new PhD track was launched with Markus Fischer’s idea to look into situation awareness (SA). The latter term is known from the aviation industry and requires pilots to be aware of all critical situations that may occur while flying a plane. More and more evidence is emerging […]