TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sterz, Jasmina
A1  - Linßen, Svea Katharina
A1  - Stefanescu, Maria-Christina
A1  - Schreckenbach, Teresa
A1  - Seifert, Lukas Benedikt
A1  - Rüsseler, Miriam
T1  - Implementation of written structured feedback into a surgical OSCE
T2  - BMC Medical Education
N2  - Background: Feedback is an essential element of learning. Despite this, students complain about receiving too little feedback in medical examinations, e.g., in an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). This study aims to implement a written structured feedback tool for use in OSCEs and to analyse the attitudes of students and examiners towards this kind of feedback.
Methods: The participants were OSCE examiners and third-year medical students. This prospective study was conducted using a multistage design. In the first step, an unstructured interrogation of the examiners formed the basis for developing a feedback tool, which was evaluated and then adopted in the next steps.
Results: In total, 351 students and 51 examiners participated in this study. A baseline was created for each category of OSCE station and was supplemented with station-specific items. Each of these items was rated on a three-point scale. In addition to the preformulated answer options, each domain had space for individual comments.
A total of 87.5% of the students and 91.6% of the examiners agreed or rather agreed that written feedback should continue to be used in upcoming OSCEs.
Conclusion: The implementation of structured, written feedback in a curricular, summative examination is possible, and examiners and students would like the feedback to be constant.
KW  - Structured written feedback
KW  - OSCE
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Undergraduate medical education
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/79939
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-799396
SN  - 1472-6920
N1  - This study was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 01PL12038A) as part of the joint research project, “Practical clinical competence—a joint programme to improve training in surgery”. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
N1  - The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
VL  - 21
IS  - 1, art. 192
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -