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The USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) exam consists of a series of learner-patient encounters in which the medical students are expected to
- investigate the simulated patient's chief complaint,
- obtain a thorough assessment of their medical history (medications, allergies, social history) and family history,
- complete a physical examination,
- determine differential diagnoses,
- write a patient note based on their findings.
To facilitate such an assessment, CAE LearningSpace offers a pre-structured section, called Step 2 CS Patient Note:
It is available at the bottom of the New Item list when creating a Post-Encounter Learner checklist.
Clicking it inserts a fully-prepared individual section into the checklist, consisting of items best fit for Step 2 CS assessment.
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The textual parts can be modified by clicking the desired field. |
As the Step 2 CS assessment requires learners to phrase their responses, point values cannot be calculated by the system, scoring of responses necessitates the active participation of an evaluator: scoreS scores are determined by a professionally competent Faculty member. Such an evaluation is referred to in LearningSpace as Open-Ended Question Scoring (OEQS).
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IMPORTANT: As in case of all other item types, Step 2 CS Patient Note is NOT scored by default. If the default setting is not changed, answers will not be displayed for OEQS.
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IMPORTANT: During OEQS grading, answers entered for a Step 2 CS Patient Note item will be displayed on one page for the faculty submitting the grading. However, if the items are separately added, that is, not as one pre-compiled section of Step 2 CS Patient Note, but as a series of Text items (for History and Physical Examination) and Structured Text items (for Data Interpretation), then the answers for the items will be separately displayed for grading - one item per page.
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For further information, visit our Case Manager pages and watch the Case Manager Training Videos. |