OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION (OSCE) USED AS PROGRESS TEST IN A RESIDENCY OF FAMILY MEDICINE

Introduction: Progress testing is an assessment of all students in different levels of training at regular intervals. These tests are designed to assess the final curricular competences. For each level, participants are expected to obtain increasing scores according to their acquisition of competences. The objective is to evaluate an OSCE for residents of Family Medicine (FM) used as progress test. Methodology: we implemented the OSCE- progress test in the FM residency in a University Hospital in Buenos Aires. The purpose was to give students feedback, analyze the profile of residents in each dimension, define the progress of the acquisition of competencies across different years and design possible remedial plans. Reliability, discrimination rates and performance per year per student were calculated. Satisfaction was evaluated by a 5- point Likert scale. Results: In 2015, 16 residents were assessed in a 14-station OSCE. Chronbach Alpha was 0.83.The score means per year of residency were 72.76 (SD 2.53) for fourth year, 50.89 (SD 1.96) for third year, 55.42 (SD 2.53) for second year and 65.05 (SD 2.19) for first year (p