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Several studies have used the OSCE to assess the effect of educational interventions on specific skills at the second-year level, such as history-taking for smoking [ 8 ] , or examination of low back pain [ 9 ] or the breast [ 10 11 ] . Others have examined the use of different examination personnel as examiners or patients [ 12 13 14 ] , compared students' course feedback to their OSCE performance [ 15 ] , examined costs [ 12 16 ] or reliability and generalizability [ 7 ] , compared training locations [ 17 ] or provided general descriptions of their OSCE's [ 18 19 20 21 22 ] . We found no studies that have used the OSCE to report comprehensively on the spectrum of skills learned in a second-year physical diagnosis course.
To some proponents of case studies, the credibility of the method depends on what they call "naturalistic generalizability."
A fair objection to this statement is that the laws of probability operate on large numbers, and selecting fewer than 30 instances does not always provide the generalizability to the population as a whole that probability samples promise.
A more important generalizability question arises due to the sample selected for this study - namely hospitals located only in California during the 1980s.
Impartiality and Generalizability