Health science students' perceptions about Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) as a method of clinical evaluation.
Background: For decades, practical clinical examinations have been valid and reliable methods to evaluate health sciences undergraduate students' clinical performance and competencies for a wide range of skills. Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is a widely used practical clinical exa...
| Publicado en: | Electronic Journal of General Medicine Vol. 19; no. 6; pp. 1 - 9 |
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Modestum Publications
Dec2022
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