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Use of an objective structured clinical examination in evaluating student performance

Introduction: Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been successfully implemented into the graduate pharmacy curriculum as a part of the Pre-registration final exam at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, in the academic year 2015/2016. OSCE is used to assess pharmacy students’ competencies following the completion of a 6-monhts Professional training for pharmacists. OSCE is composed of six stations, run in the circuit, and set up to test students’ response to a given simulation. Stations are as follows: Medications and devices counselling (10 minutes) ; Magistral compounding (20 minutes) ; Legal aspects of prescription (10 minutes) ; Responding to symptoms and history taking (10 minutes) ; Hospital patient case (10 minutes) ; Portfolio (10 minutes). 1 Aim: To evaluate pharmacy students’ performance following Professional training for pharmacists. Materials and methods: From September 2016 to December 2017 OSCE has been conducted 8 times. Students' overall scores were collected following each OSCE. Minimum of 60% needed to be met at each OSCE station. Results: Following the OSCE implementation in 2016, altogether 139 students completed it after passing a written exam. Students were the most successful at the stations Portfolio (mean percentage was 100%), Responding to symptoms and history taking (mean percentage was 86.6 ± 13.6) and Legal aspects of prescription (mean percentage was 86.1 ± 13.5). The lowest results were presented at the station Hospital patient case (mean percentage was 74.0 ± 12.2). Overall mean students’ scores were 84.8 ± 4.9. Conclusion: A high score acquired by the majority of students at the OSCE indicates favourable student performance following six-month Professional training for pharmacists.

objective structured clinical examination ; professional training ; pharmacist

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