Fig 2. Share of participants who engaged in free practice (FP) in the depicted skills/topics.

Answering “yes” means that the respective medical skill or OSCE topic was practiced at least once. On the questionnaire, the number of times a skill was trained was not polled. In 2023, it was asked whether physical and neurological examinations as well as anamnesis and diagnosis were practiced in another extracurricular context than the Skills Lab. The response “yes” was more common than to the question narrowed to the Skills Lab. In Fig 1, we combined FP in- and outside the Skills Lab for these OSCE topics.