Virtual BEI Global Med Ed Café - OSTEs: Putting the T in OSCEs

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The BEI invites all Brigham educators and trainees to attend another Global Med Ed session.

Objective Structured Teaching Exams (OSTEs) are educational tools for assessing instructional competencies. While they are structurally comparable to OSCEs (e.g., standardized participants, direct observation, objective scoring), the individual stations address teaching-related skills (e.g., rounding, providing feedback, mentoring). This Global Café will provide an overview of past uses and discuss some of the opportunities and challenges inherent in OSTEs.

Objectives: By the end of the session, participants should be able to
1. Describe multiple uses of OSTEs in Health Professions Education
2. Identify instructional skills that can be examined with an OSTE format

Led by

Elizabeth Kachur, PhD, FAMEE is the Director of Medical Education Developing, Global Consulting which focuses on curriculum and faculty development, learner assessment and program evaluation. She has been organizing OSCEs and similar types of multiple station exams and exercises for several decades and has published and presented on the topic extensively.

Lisa Altshuler, PhD is the Associate Director for Evaluation and Assessment at the NYU Program for Medical Education and Research and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. She has many years of experience organizing OSCEs and similar formative and summative assessments and her research advancing this field has been published and presented widely.

Moderated by

Subha Ramani, MBBS, PhD
President of AMEE
Assistant Director Global Perspectives & Community, BEI
Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS

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