Training of the OSCE method of First Aid examiners in SIMU
On 18 and 20 January 2021, there was a training of lecturers-academics, who will be testing the first-year students of General Medicine and Dentistry on the practical part of the First Aid colloquium.
The OSCE method, i.e. Objective Structured Clinical Examination, is a novelty for the First Aid examiners. This method is a worldwide gold standard for the evaluation of clinical skills across disciplines. The advantages of this method include particularly the standardization of the examination process and the objectivity of the final evaluation, which takes place according to a pre-prepared checklist, enabling to make comparisons across the fields of study as well as individual workplaces and examiners. In the future, students of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University will encounter the testing via OSCE method in several courses during their studies, predominantly in the premises of the new Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine, which provides not only technical but also personnel background from methodologists, OSCE guarantors and interactive teaching technicians who help to ensure the exams.
Part of the training was to get acquainted with the newly created SIMU portfolio platform, in which the examiner will be recording the student's performance during the OSCE exam into a prepared checklist. The examiners also got acquainted with an application used for an objective evaluation of CPR quality. And since we do nothing "halfway" in the Simulation Centre of the Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, an integral part of the training was a practical training of the entire course of the exam. The examiners had the opportunity to try repeatedly not only a mock evaluation of student performance in all prepared scenarios, but also a task assignment and an overall evaluation of student performance from among the students of First Aid instructors.
In total there were 19 physicians trained. They came from all three participating clinics (Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ARK) of St. Anne's Faculty Hospital and Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (KARIM) of Faculty Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University, and Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (KDAR) of Faculty Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University were trained in both days. Together with the team of First Aid methodologists, this year's students will be tested by 23 trained examiners.
