Does anyone have suggestions on the timing for asking medical students to evaluate a clinical OSCE station ? I'm a bit stuck between whether to get them to complete a written evaluation immediately (good response rate but may be biased by how they feel they performed) and sending an online survey out (poor response rate but less biased?). There doesn't seem to be much research in this area - unless I'm just not nailing the search terms. Thanks everyone.
Hi,
Always immediate evaluation is better, as there are at least 5 stations and student's quick response will be their unbiased response. Delayed evaluation might be influenced by discussions by other students.
Thank you Bhogaraju. I appreciate your response. That is my feeling too although finding research to substantiate this is proving difficult!
Attatching a questionnaire to the end of a session with a bit of software is, in my experience, not optimal as respondents are focussed on the task(s) they have just completed and will resent your intrusion into their thought processes (such as they may be!) You tend to get "don't know" responses because they just want to get your questionnaire out of the way and go on with their lives. The best way to get a good reasoned set of responses is to follow up respondents individually, email them, request them to fill out a questionnaire about their experiences, and thank them for their trouble. You MAY offer them incentives such as guaranteeing to pay so much to a charity of your choice if they respond (mind you follow this up!) A reliable questionnaire used in this context is (ahem, for it is mine) is the SUMI questionnaire. See sumi.uxp.ie
Thank you so much Jurek Kirakowski. That is very well reasoned and certainly not something that I had considered in so much depth. Your SUMI tool looks great. Very simple but gains a great deal of information using quantitative and qualitative questions. Thank you for sharing.
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