Gerald M Fried, Julián Varas, Dana A Telem, Caprice C Greenberg, Daniel A Hashimoto, John T Paige, Carla Pugh
Opportunities and Applications of Educational Technologies in Surgical Education and Assessment
Annals of surgery
goal present study evaluate whether children standardized patients sps summative osce station fulfills ottawa criteria good assessment data participating students n 124 raters n 11 children n 127 collected using questionnaires students raters focus groups raters interviews children raters psychometrics including reproducibility osce station also analyzed according quality indices validity reproducibility feasibility educational effect acceptability attained osce station students raters accepted new approach evaluated fair acceptable realism validity osce station perceived positive educational effect 30 students expected child sps raters stated feasible involve children children enjoyed participation acceptable feasible statistical measures recommended ranges showed reproducibility children sps summative osce station perceived fair acceptable realistic feasible stakeholders perceived positive educational impact pediatric osce station fulfilled five seven ottawa criteria good assessment studies needed investigate different pediatric stations