2022 Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 243-247
In November 2014, a symposium was held by the Japan Society of Medical Education on the theme of the National Medical Licensing Examination. To improve the National Medical Licensing Examination, the post clinical clerkship OSCE was officially implemented from FY2020. Its introduction into the National Medical Licensing Examination will be discussed in the future based on the status of its implementation. The competencies to be assessed are clinical capabilities that can be performed on patients under the “guidance of a supervising physician,” and are suitable for evaluation in the clinical setting where the supervising physician directly observes and evaluates students’ medical practices. In comparison with the OSCE, which evaluates simulated clinical practice, the introduction of the post clinical clerkship OSCE into the National Medical Licensing Examination was discussed.
