{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["009:25"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "NIH", "hasEmail": "mailto:info@nih.gov"}, "description": "Background\n          Little is known about using the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in physical diagnosis courses. The purpose of this study was to describe student performance on an OSCE in a physical diagnosis course.\n        \n        \n          Methods\n          Cross-sectional study at Harvard Medical School, 1997\u20131999, for 489 second-year students.\n        \n        \n          Results\n          Average total OSCE score was 57% (range 39\u201375%). Among clinical skills, students scored highest on patient interaction (72%), followed by examination technique (65%), abnormality identification (62%), history-taking (60%), patient presentation (60%), physical examination knowledge (47%), and differential diagnosis (40%) (p < .0001). Among 16 OSCE stations, scores ranged from 70% for arthritis to 29% for calf pain (p < .0001). Teaching sites accounted for larger adjusted differences in station scores, up to 28%, than in skill scores (9%) (p < .0001).\n        \n        \n          Conclusions\n          Students scored higher on interpersonal and technical skills than on interpretive or integrative skills. Station scores identified specific content that needs improved teaching.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "Visit the original government dataset for complete information, documentation, and data access.", "downloadURL": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC80153/", "mediaType": "text/html", "title": "Official Government Data Source"}], "identifier": "https://healthdata.gov/api/views/mxua-tqeu", "issued": "2025-07-14", "keyword": ["nih", "physical-diagnosis", "clinical-skills-assessment", "medical-education", "osce-performance"], "landingPage": "https://healthdata.gov/d/mxua-tqeu", "modified": "2025-09-06", "programCode": ["009:034"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institutes of Health"}, "theme": ["NIH"], "title": "How well do second-year students learn physical diagnosis? Observational study of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)"}