2016 Volume 18 Pages 23-33
Based on our previously created version of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) for nurturing physical therapists, we developed a revised method called OSCE-Reflection method (OSCE-R) by integrating visual group reflection into the above OSCE, which has been implemented since FY2007． The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of OSCE-R ver. 2 , i．e．an OSCE-R version with revised OSCE tasks, on the learning of students． In this study, seventy seven third-grade students of the physical therapy department were subjected to OSCE-R with the revised tasks in order to compare their OSCE scores obtained before and after their group reflection and analyze the reflection sheets, questionnaires and interview surveys that were conducted with them． The results demonstrated that the newly adopted “OSCE-R ver. 2” allowed for simulating the settings as close as possible to those in clinical practice thanks to the revision of tasks． We also found that OSCE-R allows students to think deeply and makes them follow a course of physical therapy assessment which includes clinical reasoning that is compatible with clinical practice.
