Sondra Zabar • Elizabeth Krajic Kachur
Adina Kalet • Kathleen Hanley
Editors

2013

10 Steps to Planning and Implementing
OSCEs and Other Standardized
Patient Exercises

This book is a practical manual for educators in the health professions wishing to build a state-of-the-art performance assessment program for their trainees. Why make the considerable investment required to do this well? Why go through the trouble of choosing competencies to measure, writing and piloting cases, recruiting and training standardized patients (SPs), developing standards, and scheduling hoards of students into countless 15-min rotation slots many times a year.