Demonstrating Medical Student Competency in Palliative Care: Development and Evaluation of a New Objective Structured Clinical Examination Station

Abstract

A new OSCE to assess palliative care competencies was feasible to implement with high inter-rater reliability, evidence supporting validity, and moderate internal consistency. We believe this OSCE would prove useful to assess students' primary palliative care competency and to evaluate curricula in palliative care.