I'm a doctor currently working as a teaching assistant at a medical college.
I'd appreciate some suggestions regarding what we call Obstructive Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) - it's simply a fsce-to-fsce examination to test students' approach, technique, knowledge, and interpretation, among other things.
We have recently switched to remote teaching via Microsoft Teams.
So far, it's been going well. Most lectures are going just fine.
I personally deal with clinical skills teaching. We're facing a bit of an issue with that, because as you can guess, it's not exactly ideal to be teaching medical students practical clinical skills while they're not physically with us.
We have brainstormed some ideas. Right now we teachers/assistants do go to campus to work. We have a lab set up with computers, a webcam, a microphone, and a projector.
We have recorded videos doing and explaining how to conduct clinical examinations for students, so we send them links to these, plus other official videos by other organisations. Then, we encourage them to use their mics for discussion, though most prefer to text. We send polls in the chat for more interaction. We also bring a simulated patient to demonstrate live if we need to.
What we're currently struggling with, though, is how we can possibly assess the students' clinical skills, especially the technique.
As of now, we've been instructed that students are not allowed to be on campus, even for exams.
Written exams can be done online just fine, it's just the OSCEs that pose a problem.
We've done some searching online to see how some universities have dealt with this - University of Cambridge as well as others in the UK have actually passed students without these face-to-face exams, and considered previous assessment instead.
Harvard medical school decided to proceed normally, perhaps with some sort of precautions (disinfection, some testing for students suspected to suffer from COVID-19)
We have considered doing them online by instructing students to show us the technique but it just seems silly to do it like that; we just may not have a choice as these are extraordinary circumstances.
How have YOU dealt with such issues?
Submitted March 19, 2020 at 01:38AM by TheMaxClyde https://ift.tt/2Wr1VlW
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