This article reports on an interprofessional education (IPE) OSCE where final-year pharmacy students engaged with two simulated participants: a “carer,” who was played by a trained lay person, and a “doctor,” who was a pharmacist trained to both play the role of doctor and evaluate the student. The authors describe the challenge for the students as: “During the interaction, the doctor and caregiver were each asked to pose resistance to students’ therapeutic recommendations, and students were expected to effectively address this resistance to reach a collaborative decision on the patient’s management.” The authors cite several findings suggestive of ways to improve the OSCE for future use, but the student post-activity survey suggests that even this early iteration was beneficial, with 89.4% of students agreeing or strongly agreeing that “the station assessed their teamwork skills adequately” and 88.9% agreeing or strongly agreeing that “practicing for this OSCE station built their teamwork skills.”

 

Read the full article in Experiences in Teaching and Learning here.

 

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