Introduction: OSCEs: Past, Present, and Future
摘要
Creating Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) or other Standardized Patient/Participant (SP) exercises can feel overwhelming, but the benefits of this type of instructional design regarding practice-based learning and performance-based assessment for future healthcare practitioners certainly make OSCEs worthwhile. This is why we wrote this book. It is our hope that the systematic approach offered here will make it easier for more people to get involved in the process of creating OSCEs or similar SP exercises. Using Chap. 2 (Organizing OSCEs (and Other SP Exercises) in Ten Steps) as a road map, the process is doable and rewarding. This vastly expanded second edition is a testament to how much the medical education field around OSCEs has grown.