Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Ulm, Germany
Research Article
Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Student?s Performance in Surgical OSCE Examination in a German University Hospital: A Retrospective Analysis Before, during and After Pandemic
Author(s): Giulia Manzini*, Maximilian Denzinger, Marko Kornmann, Ian N. Hines and Michael Kremer
Background: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was introduced by Harden et al. (1975) as an
instrument to assess clinical, theoretical, and practical competencies. The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant
impact on medical education, especially in the area of practical clerkships of medical students where in person,
hands-on, instruction was replaced by online seminars.
Aim: To assess if the pandemic has influenced medical student performance on the surgical OSCE.
Methods: Student performance at a German University Hospital during three surgical OSCE examination windows,
winter semester 2018/2019, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, corresponding to before, during, and after pandemic
changes to instruction were compared. For this comparison, 3 out of the 12 total OSCE stations were considered:
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