Original Article
DOI : https://doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2008.20.4.343

Korean J Med Educ. 2008; 20(4): 343-349.

Published online 2008 December 31.

doi: https://doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2008.20.4.343

Introduction of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to Residency Examination

Son Hwan Choi¹, and Suk Bong Koh²

¹Departments of Medical Education School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea
²Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea

Corresponding Author: Email: sbko@cu.ac.kr

Received 2008 July 25;    Accepted 2008 December 04.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to analyze the development and implementation of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for the residency applicant examination at Daegu-Catholic Hospital. METHODS: Fifty-four Daegu-Catholic residency applicants were evaluated by written examination, internship scores, and OSCE. The correlation between written examination scores, internship scores, and OSCE scores was assessed. RESULTS: The correlation between OSCE and internship scores showed a tendency to be more significant than that between the written test and internship scores, but OSCE-internship correlation coefficients and written test and internship correlation coefficients was not statistically significant. The distribution of OSCE and internship scores on a graph corroborated this relationship between the two variables. CONCLUSION: The OSCE presents more objective criteria for residency application tests.

Keywords : Clinical competence;Educational measurement;Internship and residency