MEDEV

School of Medical Sciences Education Development

Training the OSCE examiners

Date: 1 day event - 06 Oct 2006

Aims

This workshop is intended to provide a model for training examiners for OSCEs

Activities

Presentations
- Group work: marking videos of OSCEs and ?live stations? in groups, with feedback and discussion
- Question and answer session: participants to prepare, in advance of the workshop, up to 3 issues they would like to discuss in relation to examiner training. Email these to: kamb2@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Proposed outcomes

The participants will
? Learn about good principles of OSCE examiner training
? Experience group activity in marking videos and live performances of OSCE stations
? Formulate plans for implementation of OSCE examiner training at their own institutions

Facilitators & Speakers

• Trudie Roberts - Facilitator

Facilitator background

Katharine Boursicot is a Reader in Medical Education and has run training workshops for OSCE examiners at Barts and the London School of Medicine for 8 years for summative (final MBBS) and formative (Year 3) OSCEs. As a member of the PLAB OSCE Panel, she has participated in the development of the format of OSCE examiner training workshops for the GMC's PLAB OSCE, and delivered these workshops regularly over the last 5 years. She was part of the faculty charged with introducing OSCEs at the Clinical School in Cambridge and ran regular examiner training workshops there.

Trudie Roberts is Head of the School of Medicine in Leeds and has designed and run training workshops for OSCE examiners at Leeds for several years. She examines regularly for the GMC's PLAB OSCE and for the Royal College of Physicians' PACES.

Target audience

Academics involved in the planning and implementation of OSCEs.
Staff development officers involved in running OSCE examiner training.

Venue & Location

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