%0 Journal Article %T Aplicaci¨®n del Examen Cl¨ªnico Objetivo Estructurado (OSCE) en la evaluaci¨®n final del internado de pediatr¨ªa en dos escuelas de medicina %A Trivi£¿o B %A Ximena %A V¨¢squez M %A Alicia %A Mena M %A Andrea %A L¨®pez T %A Ana %A Aldunate R %A Margarita %A Varas P %A M¨®nica %A Lillo B %A Ricardo %A Wright %A Ana %J Revista m¨¦dica de Chile %D 2002 %I Sociedad M¨¦dica de Santiago %R 10.4067/S0034-98872002000700016 %X background: the objective structured clinical examination (osce) has become a respected and widely used tool for the assessment of clinical competence in medical education. aim: to describe the first experience of an osce as a summative assessment in undergraduate pediatric internship, in two universities. material and methods: the osce was structured by a committee of faculty members of the 5 campi of university of chile and i campus of the catholic university. a 21 station osce was administered simultaneously to 124 pediatric interns (university of chile =104, catholic university=20), in 3 centers. a total of 50 faculty members participated in the examination. the osce consisted of 20 clinical problems, including videotape recordings, photographs, x-rays and laboratory exams, phantoms and 7 simulated standardized parents. results: the average total osce score was 67.3% (range: 84.5%-43.5%). the maximum theoretic score was achieved in 19 stations. a significant correlation between station and total score, was found for 18 of the 20 clinical problems. conclusions: the experience of using osce has been a success. the osce was an adequate procedure to assess a large number of interns simultaneously and it allowed us to measure the main objectives in all domains and a wide range of clinical competence of pediatric internship programs (rev m¨¦d chile 2002; 130: 817-824). %K education %K medical %K undergraduate %K internship %K objective structured clinical examination. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-98872002000700016&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en