Feasibility and implementation of a final year Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in a medical model curriculum
Christoph Noll, Marie Mikuteit, Sina Golon, Christian Louzek, Kambiz Afshar, Ingo Just, Sandra Steffens · 2026
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Christoph Noll and co-authors describe building a final-year practical exam for medical students at Hannover Medical School. Written tests cannot judge hands-on clinical skill, so the school created a summative Objective Structured Clinical Examination before the practical year. Students rotate through timed stations, each scoring a real clinical task.
An interdisciplinary team with student input built thirty-four stations around core professional activities doctors must be trusted to perform. Pilots ran in 2022, and the exam became mandatory in the 2023-24 curriculum, tied to five clerkships, with pass marks set by a formal standard-setting method. In June 2024, two hundred seventy-eight students sat it. Feasibility, they conclude, is proven, staffing cost and all.
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| CREATOR | Christoph Noll, Marie Mikuteit, Sina Golon, Christian Louzek, Kambiz Afshar, Ingo Just, Sandra Steffens |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |