TY - JOUR T1 - An objective undergraduate clinical examination in child health. JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 917 LP - 922 DO - 10.1136/adc.55.12.917 VL - 55 IS - 12 AU - T Waterston AU - J I Cater AU - R G Mitchell Y1 - 1980/12/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/55/12/917.abstract N2 - A new type of test used to examine medical students' clinical skills in paediatrics is described. Each student has to circulate round a number of timed stations. At each one he performs a specified clinical procedure--such as history taking, physical examination, urine analysis, and radiological interpretation--and is marked according to his performance. This type of test is objective and can be extended to cover different aspects of clinical methods; it readily informs the student about his progress, and enables the teacher to look critically at his own technique. ER -