Affiliations 

  • 1 Universiti Malaysia Sabah
MyJurnal

Abstract

An Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is now a well-recognized modern type of
examination often used in faculties of medicine and health sciences all over the world. Though the
assessment tool has been designed to assess different types of clinical skill but this is evident that student
performance are not the same in different types of stations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the
performances in different types of OSCE stations among undergraduate medical students. Three types of
stations were set in this cross-sectional study. They were clinical reasoning, history taking and procedure
performing. On the examination day all the students had attended 3 stations for procedure, 4 stations for
clinical reasoning and 3 stations for history taking. The scores were collected and transferred to excel
spreadsheet. Mean score of each types of modules were calculated. Statistical difference between all three
means were measured by one-way ANOVA F-test. F was 7.2 and p-value was 0.001304. The result was
significant at p