Plan
We envision the creation of a 10-station OSCE using written scenarios, triggervideotapes, and standardized patients to assess students’ competence or capability in 3 overarching areas:
Providing Safe Care – providing collaborative patient-centered care, practicing evidence-based healthcare, using decision support and other information systems at the point of patient care, anticipating the unexpected, and having a plan for recovering from and analyzing error;
Providing Culturally Competent Care – demonstrating a willingness to learn from patients about their health beliefs, to incorporate patients’ perspectives into structuring and delivering health care, to modify one’s thinking and behaviors to facilitate mutual respect and rapport, to negotiate mutually acceptable treatment plans, and to establish a partnership with patients.
Collaborating in Teams – an ability to put aside rivalries, barriers and distrust and partner in a common struggle to deliver high quality, safe, patient care. Skills to be examined in this experimental station (using a standardized team) include collaborative problem solving, conflict management, negotiation, and valuing the work of other team members.