Construction of dental clinical skill examination
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Lai, Eddie Hsiang-Hua
Abstract
The concept of “Patient Center” is emphasized in the medical care recently. Dental education in addition to the traditional medical and dental knowledge, more focus on the development of skills and attitudes. Without a doubt, to ensure dentists’ competencies, clinical skills should be taught and assessed accordingly. Performance assessment, including the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), has been used globally for assessing a dental student’s stage of development for years. Many studies have concluded that by using OSCE, clinical instructors are able to understand students’ clinical competencies better than by the written examination. OSCE, lately becoming a part of Licensure examination in North America and Japan, has been widely recognized as an important tool for assessing clinical skills. It includes a national standardized assessment of clinical competencies such as patient-physician communication, clinical history taking and clinical examination skills.
To promote quality of dental education, School of Dentistry, National Taiwan University established an OSCE study group which works on guideline development and faculty training. Through the information collection and literature review, our comparison of the core competencies of dentistry of five countries came to similar conclusions in a number of areas; however, they varied in other areas, which may due to cultural differences. We built up the blueprint of OSCE by employing the Nominal Group Technique to identify the essential core competencies required of dental students prior to graduation. After a series of faculty training and reliability in performance assessment through mini-OSCE, the examination guideline was set up. Finally, we held the 6 stations of OSCE for 36 students from 3 different levels. The results of OSCE may help clinical faculties to formulate their teaching content and to modify their teaching skills. We also hope that the guideline we developed for the implementation of OSCE will act as a reference when dental schools perform OSCE in the future.
Keyword : Performance assessment, Objective Structured Clinical Examination, Nominal Group Technique
Subjects
臨床實作評量
客觀結構式臨床測驗
名義團體技巧
Type
thesis
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