Are your Graduates Ready for Internship?
The use of simulations to assess medical students’ ability to communicate, take a history, perform a physical examination, and demonstrate professionalism using standardized patients as raters has been pivotal to the assessment of medical student competence.Night-onCall (NOC) uses an OSCE framework to provide an individualized immersive simulation experience. The simulation consists of three cases that assess the competencies of near-graduate medical students and provides a 360 evaluation from multiple perspectives including a standardized patient (SP), nurse (SN), attending (SA), and patient’s partner (SPR). Patient care, content, quality, and communication skills are measured using a behaviorally-anchored checklist of items on a 3 point Likert-scale (not done, partly done and well done), and trust and professionalism are measured by three items on a 4-point Likert-scale (e.g. not recommend to highly recommend).
