The Effectiveness of applying for Formative Assessment Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)for Undergraduate Students in Faculty of Medicine King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The use of formative and summative assessment for students have been always a concern for medical professionals such as teachers and students especially when students are at graduating level. This can be supported with increasing the effectiveness and comprehensiveness of the students with appropriate clinical training using a defined structure with questionnaire-based system defined in the methodology to support student’s skills using clinical competencies to form perspective. It has been found that with Objective Structured Clinical Examination can be used as the method to assess the adequacy to support clinical skills of medical students following their competence level. This can be used to support a variety of tests to work on underpinning emergency procedures to interpret investigational data to ensure in-depth and breadth coverage of clinical skills following 5th-year medical students.