Study limitations
Some limitations of the research should be noted. Firstly, there is the relatively small sample size. However, the study still represents the performance results from most of the generation. Secondly, students were assessed by different peer-assessors. Although the assessors were given the same instructions and had to follow the given checklist, it is possible that there are differences because of some subjective assessor’s criteria. Another important consideration is the checklist sensitivity to measure the improvement in students’ performance. Students might find some items on the checklist self-explanatory and leave them out in their performance, especially because they are not talking to a real patient. Finally, in our audit we did not include control group of students that would not enter the clinical clerkship therefore the impact of the progress testing itself cannot be evaluated. Implementation of a control group should be considered in further researches.