The Relationship between Modified Long Case and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (Osce) in Final Professional Examination 2011 Held in UKM Medical Centre

Before the introduction of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) into medical schools, assessment of psychomotor domains was largely dependent on long case and short case examination format. This study is designed to identify the relationship between the long case and the OSCE. There was a positive weak correlation between the diagnostic ability component of the long case and the diagnostic ability component of the OSCE (r= 0.165, p= 0.042). and a positive weak correlation between the total long case mark and the total OSCE mark (r=0.168, p= 0.039). The long case and the OSCE correlate poorly and the student's performance in one doesn’t predict the performance on the other.