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For clinical skills, students scored highest on patient interaction (72%), followed by physical examination technique (65%), identification of abnormalities (62%), history-taking (60%), patient presentation (60%), physical examination knowledge (47%), and differential diagnosis (40%) (p < .0001, Figure 1a).
Clinical skill scores remained stable from 1997-1999, with only slight improvement in history-taking (3% from 1997 to 1999, p = .0003).
However, patient interaction and history-taking drew their questions from the same stations.
Medical students' scores were 9% higher than dental students' scores for patient presentation (and were slightly but significantly higher for all other clinical skills except history-taking, not shown).
OSCE committee members designated each question or task in the 16 stations as one of 7 clinical skills, defined as follows: asking appropriate questions for the history (history-taking); performing the physical examination correctly (physical examination technique); understanding the pathophysiology of physical findings (physical examination knowledge); identifying abnormalities on physical examination (identification of abnormalities); developing appropriate differential diagnoses for the clinical information obtained (differential diagnosis); utilizing appropriate patient-doctor interaction techniques (patient interaction); and orally presenting the history and differential diagnosis after taking a clinical history (patient presentation).
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