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Farm Comunitarios. 2020 Mar 06;12(1):29-34. doi: 10.33620/FC.2173-9218.(2020/Vol12).001.06

Assessment of the knowledge and skills of Pharmacy graduates: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

Calatayud-Pascual MA1, Balaguer-Fernández C1, Salar-Ibáñez L1, 2, Moreno-Royo L1, López-Castellano A1
1. Departamento de Farmacia. Facultad Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, España. 2. Farmacéutico comunitario.
Calatayud-Pascual MA, Balaguer-Fernández C, Salar-Ibáñez L, Moreno-Royo L, López-Castellano A. Assessment of the knowledge and skills of Pharmacy graduates: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Farm Comunitarios. 2020 Mar 06;12(1):29-34. doi: 10.33620/FC.2173-9218.(2020/Vol12).001.06
Abstract : 

Higher education evolves towards Problem Based Learning. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) assesses students’ competencies in three of the four levels of Miller’s pyramid; Knows, Knows How, and Shows How (knowledge, competence, and performance). In the last two years, a total of 79 students at Cardenal Herrera University CEU were assessed with this examination, with good results. Student are asked to go through 5 stations, in which they have 5 minutes to resolve a practical problem. A trained teacher acts as the patient, while another evaluates the student’s abilities.

Next, an anonymous satisfaction survey is given to the students, with the result 4,12/6.

The problems presented to the students must be changed constantly so that each time they increasingly adapt to the situations they will find in their real-life practice once the graduate as professional pharmacists.

Keywords : 
Clinical skills, competencies, OSCE (objective structured clinical examination), pharmacy students, simulation

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