Al-Ahliyya Amman University’s Pharmaceutical Training Committee organizes its first workshop on ways to conduct and develop an organized Objective Structured Clinical Exam

As part of the training course program at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Al-Ahliyya Amman University, the field training committee headed by Dr. Ibrahim Al-Theeb (Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology) at the Faculty of Pharmacy organized the first training workshop on ways to conduct and develop the Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE), which was presented by Dr. Maryam Al Ameri (Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy) in collaboration with members of the Field Training Committee, from March 7-8, 2022. The Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Prof. Dr. Mohammed Al-Tannani, pointed out that this workshop is one of the objectives to develop the teaching staff in accordance with the latest international expertise in the development and testing of structural objective clinical examination and preparing students for such clinical examinations. The workshop included a number of topics, such as modern concepts in the clinical examination test, methods of developing the content of test stations (OSCE Station), methods of preparing the evaluation list for this test (Checklist preparation), training in cases that simulate real-life conditions (Case preparation) and how to prepare the necessary instructions for examiners, and instructions for students. The workshop also included a mock test (Mock OSCE) which comprised of two test stations between which students move from the registration room to the first station and then the second station, and then return to the waiting room, where the student movement begins after they hear the bell. The Field Training Committee has decided that this pilot test will be carried out in the library building of the Faculties of Pharmacy and Supporting Sciences, where there is ample space. Dr. Lubna Gharaybeh, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceuticals and Clinical Pharmacy, Head of Biopharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, stressed the need to hold such a workshop periodically in order to improve the clinical skills of pharmacy students at Al-Ahliyya Amman University. The Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Prof. Dr. Mohammed Al-Tannani, also explained that the workshop targets students of the Faculty of Pharmacy, to fully qualify them for the requirements of the labor market and the clinical skills and techniques it needs. Dr. Lubna Gharaybeh and Dr. Ibrahim Al-Theeb stated that this workshop will be the beginning of the inclusion of the objective structured clinical examination test (OSCE) in the courses of the Faculty of Pharmacy with the aim of developing the clinical skills of pharmacy students, which increases the competence of graduates of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Al-Ahliyya Amman University.