Primary endpoint and final evaluation
pelvic pain
MAY, FACIAL PALSY
For all included students, a summative OSCE was performed at the end of the school year on May 2021, organized by the faculty. None of the teachers participating in the formative OSCE program were involved in the organization of the summative OSCE and were blinded to the summative OSCE subjects when conducting the formative program. The summative OSCE consisted of three stations (St1, 2, and 3), including one focusing on medical history, structuring of a medical history, and communication skills (St1, investigating the medical history of pelvic pain), and two others targeting technical skills or physical examination (St2 and St3, performing and analyzing an electrocardiogram and conducting the physical examination of a case of facial palsy, respectively).The primary endpoint was the mark for the summative OSCE of the station targeting medical history (St1) in the intervention group compared to the control group. St2 and St3 served as the control outcome to explore the possibility of an extended benefit of formative OSCE to skills not specifically targeted by the program.Secondary endpoints were the progression curve of the intervention group during the four OSCE training sessions, assessing communication skills and the ability to take an extensive structured medical history.Finally, a standardized anonymized questionnaire was administered to the students of the intervention group to collect feedback concerning both the formative and summative OCSEs, including the level of induced stress, their personal feeling about the formative and summative OCSEs, self-confidence, and performance evaluated using a Likert scale for each item (