Interventions
First, students who were homogeneous regarding their scores and clinical performance were randomly divided into intervention and control groups. A clinical competence assessment test was given as a pre-test to both groups. Students in the intervention group underwent formative assessments using the mini-CEX method (After 1 week, the students were re-evaluated. Each student in the intervention group was assessed once a week for 4 weeks. During this period, the control group was evaluated based on the conventional method—that is, general supervision by the instructor during the internship and summative evaluation based on a checklist at the end of the course. In the last formative assessment based on the mini-CEX, the post-test was administered again to both groups, and the intervention group filled out a mini-CEX satisfaction questionnaire.