Critical Synthesis Package: Cultural Competence OSCE (ccOSCE)

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OPEN ACCESSJune 6, 2013Critical Synthesis Package: Cultural Competence OSCE (ccOSCE) Anna T. Cianciolo, PhD, MA Anna T. Cianciolo, PhD, MA Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9428 SectionsAbout ToolsDownload Citations ShareFacebookTwitterEmail AbstractThis Critical Synthesis Package contains: (1) a Critical Analysis of the psychometric properties and application to health sciences education for the Cultural Competence OSCE (ccOSCE), and (2) a copy of the ccOSCE instrument and checklist developed by Alexander Green, MD.The ccOSCE is a one-station, performance-based assessment of medical students' ability to elicit and comprehend the sociocultural causes of health outcomes. It features a middle-aged ethnic minority woman for whom a combination of sociocultural factors, including an inaccurate understanding of hypertension, have led to medication non-adherence and complaints of inability to control her blood pressure. Within a 15-minute time limit, examinees must take a patient history, present the patient's case orally to an examiner, and complete a short-answer question about the case. Performance is rated using multiple, conceptually founded checklists. The ccOSCE may augment an OSCE that does not assess cultural competence, but its fit to other OSCE stations will require negotiation of implementation procedures and assessment criteria as well as quantitative evaluation to ensure the reliability of the full exam. The ccOSCE does not contain instructions for how to score each checklist or how checklist scores should be aggregated to produce a summary score. Such guidance is necessary to evaluate the psychometric properties of the measure (e.g., difficulty, score distributions, part-whole correlation with OSCE total score, inter-rater reliability, etc.) as well as other validity evidence (e.g., fairness of scoring procedures, relation to other measures of cultural competence and communication skills, sensitivity to instruction in these areas, etc.). However, use of the ccOSCE may raise awareness of how to assess cultural competence via modifications to extant OSCE stations. Educational Objectives To describe the purpose and basic properties of the Cultural Competence OSCE (ccOSCE), including number of items and scales, and psychometric properties;To describe the application of the ccOSCE to the field of health sciences education;To evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of the ccOSCE; andTo provide the ccOSCE and any supplemental materials to aid in its administration. Sign up for the latest publications from MedEdPORTAL Add your email below FILES INCLUDEDReferencesRelatedDetails FILES INCLUDED Included in this publication: Critical Analysis of the Cultural Competence OSCE.pdf ccOSCE Instrument & Checklist.docx To view all publication components, extract (i.e., unzip) them from the downloaded .zip file. Download editor’s noteThis publication may contain technology or a display format that is no longer in use. CitationCianciolo AT. Critical Synthesis Package: Cultural Competence OSCE (ccOSCE). MedEdPORTAL. 2013;9:9428. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9428 Copyright & Permissions© 2013 Cianciolo. This is an open-access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.KeywordsCultural CompetenceCritical AnalysisHealth Equity ResearchCultural CompetencyDREAMDirectory and Repository of Educational Assessment MeasuresOSCE Disclosures None to report. Funding/Support None to report. Loading ...