Comparative Effectiveness of OSCEs, Virtual OSCEs, and Traditional Written Testing Methods in Assessing Medical School Students’ Competencies: A Scoping Review Interim Report

By the end of their medical school training, all physicians no matter which specialty they are heading for, must be competent to prescribe medications. Selecting and prescribing medications will be the most common therapeutic intervention they make in most careers. Multiple choice questions (MCQs), written answer questions, and standardized patients within Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) form the current backbone of medical …