City of Nice volunteers to help assess medical students' clinical skills
- Education
Published on July 24, 2024
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Updated on July 24, 2024
Dates
on the June 26, 2024
Location
Campus Pasteur
Université Côte d'Azur and the City of Nice signed an agreement on Monday June 24 to involve volunteers in the practical clinical examinations of students in their 6th year of medical studies, in preparation for their internship assignment.
The new reform of the second cycle of medical studies has led to changes in the way medical students are assessed prior to their internship. In addition to the traditional portfolio-based tests, students now sit the OSCEs (objective and structured clinical examinations), which are one of the elements used to rank students nationally at the end of their 6th year, with a view to allocating them to internships.
At the Université Côte d'Azur medical school, students take the OSCEs in their 3rd year to prepare for the end-of-6th-year exam. ECOS consists in reproducing a clinical situation in a defined environment, for a set period of time (7 minutes), which enables the student to be evaluated on his or her teaching program and to assess his or her ability to examine, interact and communicate with a patient. To achieve this, the Faculty of Medicine needs volunteers - standardized participants - to carry out these practical clinical examinations.
To meet these needs, the City of Nice and Université Côte d'Azur have decided to set up a partnership involving the people of Nice, so that they canto play the role of a simulated patient, in situations strictly codified by scenarios written by the teaching staff.
The agreement was signed on June 24 on the Pasteur campus by Jeanick Brisswalter, President of Université Côte d'Azur, and Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, Président de la Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and in the presence of Nirvana Sadaghianloo, Head of ECOS and Jean Dellamonica, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
At the Université Côte d'Azur medical school, students take the OSCEs in their 3rd year to prepare for the end-of-6th-year exam. ECOS consists in reproducing a clinical situation in a defined environment, for a set period of time (7 minutes), which enables the student to be evaluated on his or her teaching program and to assess his or her ability to examine, interact and communicate with a patient. To achieve this, the Faculty of Medicine needs volunteers - standardized participants - to carry out these practical clinical examinations.
To meet these needs, the City of Nice and Université Côte d'Azur have decided to set up a partnership involving the people of Nice, so that they canto play the role of a simulated patient, in situations strictly codified by scenarios written by the teaching staff.
The agreement was signed on June 24 on the Pasteur campus by Jeanick Brisswalter, President of Université Côte d'Azur, and Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, Président de la Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and in the presence of Nirvana Sadaghianloo, Head of ECOS and Jean Dellamonica, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
