NET2019 - OSCE Examiner training: The development of an interactive faculty development programme to reduce intra-examiner variability

It is recognised that there is variation between different OSCE examiners marking the same station. An interactive faculty development programme using video and blind marking has been developed to address this. Following group discussion about the individual scores, there was increased concordance between examiners and standardisation of their allocated marks. Over a period of three years 327 doctors have attended examiner training; the results demonstrate that there is standardisation of the scores given by examiners although there is still variation between them. Despite this there are still examiners who mark using an ‘internal’ mark scheme rather than the allocated assessment criteria.