COMPARISON OF STUDENT’S SELF-ASSESSMENT TO EXAMINERS ASSESSMENT IN A FORMATIVE OBSERVED STRUCTURAL CLINICAL EXAMINATION (OSCE) AND CORRELATION BETWEEN CUMULATIVE SCORE AND GLOBAL RATING SCALE FOR STUDENTS AND EXAMINERS EVALUATION

Objective: to compare students' self-assessment with assessment by examiners in a formative observed structured clinical examination (osce) and comparison between cumulative score and global rating scale for students and faculty evaluation.methodology: this cross sectional study was carried out on 6th year medical students of oman medical college, family medicine rotation in a formative osce. a self-assessment questionnaire was completed by 15, year 6 students immediately after the osce. statistical analysis was done with spss 16.0 for windows. regression analysis was used to correlate self reported rating and actual performance in each station. a p value of < 0.05 was considered significant. correlation between cumulative score and global rating scale for students and faculty evaluation was calculated by pearson correlation.results: students has done appropriate self-assessment on dyspepsia history while the other two stations have shown some discrepancies in self-assessment and examiners assessment.conclusion: self-assessment is comparable to examiner evaluation. examiners assessment has shown consistent and positive correlation between cumulative scores and global rating scores while students had failed to show this consistency