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Performance assessment: Consensus statement and recommendations from the 2020 Ottawa Conference.

Katharine Boursicot¹, Sandra Kemp², Tim Wilkinson³

¹Department of Assessment and Progression, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

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Summary

This review updates the 2011 Consensus Statement on Performance Assessment. It summarizes contemporary best practices for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and Workplace-Based Assessments (WBAs) in health professions education.

Keywords:

OSCE Ottawa consensus Performance assessment WBA assessment validity

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Medical Education
Health Professions Education
Assessment

Background:

The 2011 Consensus Statement on Performance Assessment was published by the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).
A working group was reconvened in 2019 to review developments in performance assessment since the 2011 publication.

Purpose of the Study:

To review and consider developments in performance assessment over the past decade.
To identify areas of consensus and unresolved issues in performance assessment.
To summarize contemporary best practice recommendations for performance assessment methods.

Main Methods:

Review of the original recommendations from the 2011 Consensus Statement.
Analysis of shifts and developments in the field of performance assessment over the last 10 years.

Main Results:

Identified areas of consensus in performance assessment.
Highlighted unresolved issues in performance assessment.
Summarized contemporary best practice recommendations for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and Workplace-Based Assessments (WBAs).

Conclusions:

Performance assessment in health professions education has evolved since 2011.
OSCEs and WBAs remain fit-for-purpose methods for performance assessment.
Contemporary best practices provide guidance for effective performance assessment.