UConn School of Medicine is one of 10 medical schools nationwide prestigiously selected to participate in the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) first Creative Community to innovate medical education.<\/p>\n
The Creative Community participation will support the work of UConn\u2019s Principal Investigator Dr. Laurie Caines with a $150,000 grant over two-years to focus on identifying and developing enhancements to the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) specifically\u00a0for clinical reasoning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a great honor to be one of the schools chosen to participate in the OSCE for Clinical Reasoning Creative Community,\u201d shared Dr. Ellen Nestler, associate dean for clinical medical education at UConn School of Medicine.<\/p>\n
\u201cClinical reasoning is a challenging skill to learn and to assess.\u00a0It is a privilege to\u00a0work with the NBME and other members of the OSCE for Clinical Reasoning\u00a0Creative Community<\/em> on a pilot project focusing on this important\u00a0area of medical education,\u201d said Caines, associate professor of medicine and director of UConn\u2019s Clinical Skills Assessment Program.<\/p>\n Caines adds: “The Clinical Skills Assessment Program at UConn has had a long history of success in teaching our students the skills they need to be excellent clinicians. This\u00a0grant is both a recognition of that success and\u00a0provides\u00a0an opportunity for\u00a0our school to contribute to\u00a0the forefront of innovation\u00a0in medical education.\u201d<\/p>\n The 10 institutions selected to participate in the Creative Community, include:<\/p>\n The goals of the Creative Community are to: enhance the development, characterization and assessment of learner clinical reasoning skills; present patient groups without bias or stereotypes; minimize group differences in learner outcomes; and enable all institutions to better support learner skill development across the continuum of medical education and training.<\/p>\n\n