Journal article
Performance-based assessment of clinical ethics using an objective structured clinical examination
Abstract
PURPOSE: To further examine the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) as a performance-based assessment method for clinical ethics.
METHOD: In the spring of 1993, a volunteer sample of 88 final-year medical students from all five Ontario medical schools took a four-station OSCE that used standardized patients and involved decisions to forego life-sustaining treatment. Performance was scored on a checklist of behaviors unique to each …
Authors
Singer PA; Robb A; Cohen R; Norman G; Turnbull J
Journal
Academic Medicine, Vol. 71, No. 5, pp. 495–498
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
May 1996
DOI
10.1097/00001888-199605000-00021
ISSN
1040-2446