OSCE Psychometric analyses - Do we measure what we want to measure?

• Grant number: 23/00133-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2023
• End date: April 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Antonio Marton Filho
• Grantee: Bruna Fernanda Dias
• Host Institution: Centro Universitário Estácio de Ribeirão Preto. Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a form of assessment widely used in medical training, which uses tools that simulate reality. This method is composed of stations observed by evaluators, which have the function of indicate the strengths and weaknesses of each student per task, following the checklist, qualifying them through a note. This work proposes to carry out a broad analysis psychometry of the OSCEs carried out in the years 2019, 2021 and 2022 in two institutions of medical education, one public and one private, through quantitative and qualitative tests. In this way, we will seek to identify the reliability of the evaluations to the proposals pedagogical. Subsequently, we will seek to describe an easy-to-execute analysis system, so that the analysis after each application is feasible.