Progress test implementation
Each student was assessed in three different clinical skills before and after the clerkship. Students knew that they would be tested in three different clinical skills among all of twenty clinical skills that they had previously learned in the 3rd year. OSCE was used to grade students in history taking, venipuncture and rectal examination. The first assessment took place on their first day of the clerkship and the second at the end of it. The same clinical skills were tested during both assessments.
Each clinical skill had an expected time limitation for performing – 12 minutes for history taking, 6 minutes for venipuncture and 4 minutes for rectal examination. Each student was reminded one minute prior to end of testing time and if students exceeded the predicted time, they were stopped. The clinical skills were performed on artificial simulators – model of an arm for venipuncture and a prostate and rectal examination simulator for performing rectal examination.