Abstract
[Purpose] To investigate the method of clinical training assessment, its relationships with knowledge confirmation examination and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) results were investigated. [Subjects] Fifty-nine students who graduated in March 2015. [Methods] The correlations of knowledge confirmation examination and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) results with clinical training assessment results were investigated. [Results] In each clinical training period, the knowledge confirmation examination and OSCE results showed correlations with only a few of the items in each field of the clinical training assessment. [Conclusion] It appears that the OSCE acts as a first hurdle before clinical training. Therefore, introduction of the OSCE in each clinical training period, and simulated patient examinations should be points for future consideration. There is a possibility that external examiners’ role in the OSCE is somehow connected with the understanding of the assessment benchmarks of clinical training.
