title: Objective Structured Clinical Examination and its Impact on Clinical and Interpersonal Skills: Follow-up Study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Objective structured clinical examination is being used for assessing the clinical skills as well as their knowledge for various skills.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The present work assess the role of exposure to objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) based skills in enhancement of clinical and interpersonal skills at 1 year interval among mental health trainees.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty five mental health trainees got exposure to weekly OSCE training on various aspects of clinical work. They were contacted through E mail at 1 year interval for their feedback about the OSCE.
  
  
  RESULTS
  27 trainees responded to the mail. 74% of them attributed the change in clinical and interpersonal areas to being a role player in the OSCE and 24% preferred to be observer. They observed changes in their communication, ability to empathize, reflection of feelings, clinical and interpersonal skills.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  OSCE leads to change in their clinical, interpersonal skills and communication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Manoj Kumar
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Prabha S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Chandra
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
keywords: Clinical; interpersonal; objective structured clinical examination