Final-year medical student Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine synchronous summative tele-assessments during a COVID-19 Delta-variant stay-at-home lockdown

Jeffrey C.L. Looi; Paul A. Maguire; Daniel Bonner; Rebecca E. Reay; Angus J.F. Finlay; Philip Keightley; Michael Tedeschi; Claire Wardle; David Kramer

doi:10.1177/10398562221077885

Final-year medical student Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine synchronous summative tele-assessments during a COVID-19 Delta-variant stay-at-home lockdown

Jeffrey C.L. Looi^*, Paul A. Maguire, Daniel Bonner, Rebecca E. Reay, Angus J.F. Finlay, Philip Keightley, Michael Tedeschi, Claire Wardle, David Kramer

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Objective: We describe the planning, process and evaluation of final-year Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine summative assessments in a four-year graduate medical degree program, during a COVID-19 Delta-variant public health stay-at-home lockdown. Conclusions: We conducted separate written and clinical synchronous (real-time simultaneous) tele-assessments. We used online assessment technology with students, examiners and simulated patients, all in different physical locations. Medical students’ examination performance showed a good range. This was comparable to other discipline stations, and performance in previous years. There was no differential performance of students through the day of the assessments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	564-569
Number of pages	6
Journal	Australasian Psychiatry
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562221077885
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

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Looi, J. C. L., Maguire, P. A., Bonner, D., Reay, R. E., Finlay, A. J. F., Keightley, P., Tedeschi, M., Wardle, C., & Kramer, D. (2022). Final-year medical student Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine synchronous summative tele-assessments during a COVID-19 Delta-variant stay-at-home lockdown. Australasian Psychiatry, 30(4), 564-569. https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562221077885

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