TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination as a Component of Assessment for Initial Board Certification in Anesthesiology
AU - Warner, David O.
AU - Isaak, Robert S.
AU - Peterson-Layne, Cathleen
AU - Lien, Cynthia A.
AU - Sun, Huaping
AU - Menzies, Anna O.
AU - Cole, Daniel J.
AU - Dainer, Rupa J.
AU - Fahy, Brenda G.
AU - Macario, Alex
AU - Suresh, Santhanam
AU - Harman, Ann E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - With its first administration of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in 2018, the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) became the first US medical specialty certifying board to incorporate this type of assessment into its high-stakes certification examination system. The fundamental rationale for the ABA's introduction of the OSCE is to include an assessment that allows candidates for board certification to demonstrate what they actually "do" in domains relevant to clinical practice. Inherent in this rationale is that the OSCE will capture competencies not well assessed in the current written and oral examinations-competencies that will allow the ABA to judge whether a candidate meets the standards expected for board certification more properly. This special article describes the ABA's journey from initial conceptualization through first administration of the OSCE, including the format of the OSCE, the process for scenario development, the standardized patient program that supports OSCE administration, examiner training, scoring, and future assessment of reliability, validity, and impact of the OSCE. This information will be beneficial to both those involved in the initial certification process, such as residency graduate candidates and program directors, and others contemplating the use of high-stakes summative OSCE assessments.
AB - With its first administration of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in 2018, the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) became the first US medical specialty certifying board to incorporate this type of assessment into its high-stakes certification examination system. The fundamental rationale for the ABA's introduction of the OSCE is to include an assessment that allows candidates for board certification to demonstrate what they actually "do" in domains relevant to clinical practice. Inherent in this rationale is that the OSCE will capture competencies not well assessed in the current written and oral examinations-competencies that will allow the ABA to judge whether a candidate meets the standards expected for board certification more properly. This special article describes the ABA's journey from initial conceptualization through first administration of the OSCE, including the format of the OSCE, the process for scenario development, the standardized patient program that supports OSCE administration, examiner training, scoring, and future assessment of reliability, validity, and impact of the OSCE. This information will be beneficial to both those involved in the initial certification process, such as residency graduate candidates and program directors, and others contemplating the use of high-stakes summative OSCE assessments.
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U2 - 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004496
DO - 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004496
M3 - Article
C2 - 31688077
AN - SCOPUS:85076873593
SN - 0003-2999
VL - 130
SP - 258
EP - 264
JO - Anesthesia and analgesia
JF - Anesthesia and analgesia
IS - 1
ER -