Dentistry professors' perception of learning assessment by the OSCE

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Raquel Baroni de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Mariana Carvalho Martins
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1090
• topic: Odontologia; Avaliação Educacional; Competência Clínica; Dentistry; Educational Assessment; Clinical Competence

Higher education in health has, among others, the challenge of allowing students to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes for the exercise of their profession. In this way of teaching, the assessment of learning becomes an ally, allowing the institution, teachers, and students to reflect on the result of their actions. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an instrument for assessing clinical competencies initially used in the Medicine course and since then expanded to other majors in the health sciences. The objective of this study is to report the experience of inserting the OSCE in the Dentistry course at Faculdade Pitágoras (Unidade Guarapari/ES). A workshop was held for professors in the area, covering three activities: explanatory lecture presenting the OSCE, demonstration and practical experience of planning and elaboration of the evaluation instrument, and discussion with the participants about the tool applied to their teaching reality. After four months, for institutional organization, the OSCE was implemented as a formative and summative assessment in all classes of the course, which were already inserted in the dental clinic, taking into account adaptations suggested by the teachers to meet the needs of the local reality, but preserving the model’s adherence to the assessment of estimated competencies. Experience points to the OSCE as an excellent assessment tool in Dentistry and the workshop dynamics as a tool for understanding, demonstrating that teacher training was essential to success. Finally, the group is motivated to continue adopting the OSCE as an instrument for assessing clinical competencies.