Utilization of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination to Assess Interprofessional Collaboration Skills of Pharmacy Students

• In Event: 28.090 - MTCC Roundtable Session Nine
  In Roundtable Session: 28.090-5 - Career Trajectories in the Professions

Abstract

Interprofessional education (IPE) is recognized as an important approach for preparing health care professional students for collaboration. Accreditation standards for many programs now require assessment of IPE. Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) are widely used across health care professional programs to assess skills that cannot easily be assessed using traditional methods by having students complete specific clinical tasks, often involving patient actors. This study evaluated an IPE OSCE consisting of three simulated interactions with other healthcare professionals. The results demonstrated that student performed similarly on two of the cases with the focus of one case being less clinical that the other two. Student self-assessment demonstrated change in interprofessional collaborative competency after participation in the IPE OSCE.

Authors

• Jaime Maerten-Rivera, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Yichen Zhao, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Nicholas Fusco, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Kelly Foltz-Ramos, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Fred Doloresco, SUNY - Buffalo