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. 1993 May 1;148(9):1573–1576.

Canadian experience with structured clinical examinations.

P Grand'Maison 1, J Lescop 1, C A Brailovsky 1
PMCID: PMC1491833  PMID: 8477384

Abstract

The use of structured clinical examinations to improve the evaluation of medical students and graduates has become significantly more common in the past 25 years. Many Canadian medical educators have contributed to the development of this technique. The Canadian experience is reviewed from the introduction of simulated-standardized patients and objective-structured clinical examinations to more recent developments and the use of such examinations for licensure and certification.

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