Impact of Structured Feedback on Examiner Judgements in Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) Using Generalisability Theory

In the context of health professions education, the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been implemented globally for assessment of clinical competence. Concerns have been raised about the significant influence of construct irrelevant variance arising from examiner variability on the robustness of decisions made in high-stakes OSCEs. An opportunity to explore an initiative to reduce examiner effects was provided by a secondary...