“You can do it late at night or in the morning. You can do it at home, I did it with my flatmate.” The educational impact of an OSCE

Abstract

The expectation that an OSCE drives learning into the clinical workplace was not supported by this study. This suggests the role of clinical experience in helping students prepare for the exam may be more subliminal, or that an OSCE is more as a test of psychomotor skills than a marker of clinical experience. An unexpected benefit may be to drive more collaborative learning.