Experience in preparing students for exams in clinical disciplines

Abstract

Starting from 2024–2025 academic year Odesa National Medical University (ONMedU) has introduced an Oral Structured Exam (OSE) at clinical departments instead of the Traditional Oral Exam (TOE), which is intended to more effectively prepare graduates for Unified State Qualification Exam.The format of OSE has significant advantages over TOE, namely high fairness of assessment, validity, structure and transparency of the exam, as well as its moderate objectivity. Among the shortcomings of OSE we noted low practicality and very low adaptability. In our opinion, the implementation of the updated version of the exam for clinical disciplines at ONMedU is a successful example of professionalism, creativity and responsibility of the university management and teaching staff in the sole goal of continuous improvement of educational services, which is a priority task of Ukrainian medical universities.