Assessment of the knowledge and skills of Pharmacy graduates: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

Higher education evolves towards Problem Based Learning. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) assesses students' competencies in three of the four levels of Miller's pyramid; Knows, Knows How, and Shows How (knowledge, competence, and performance). In the last two years, a total of 79 students at Cardenal Herrera University CEU were assessed with this examination, with good results. Student are asked to go through 5 stations, in which they have 5 minutes to resolve a practical problem. A trained teacher acts as the patient, while another evaluates the student's abilities. Next, an anonymous satisfaction survey is given to the students, with the result 4.12/6. The problems presented to the students must be changed constantly so that each time they increasingly adapt to the situations they will find in their real-life practice once the graduate as professional pharmacists.