Utilisation du test de concordance de script au cours du deuxième cycle des études médicales : expérience dans l'enseignement de la neurochirurgie Use of script concordance tests among fourth- to sixth-year medical students: research in teaching neurosurgery

Background. Script concordance tests are widely used to assess clinical reasoning among residents and senior physicians, but not among medical students. Objective. The aim of this study was to determine if script concordance tests can be used to rank students during their initial medical training. Materials and methods. A 30-item test was completed by a group of 75 medical students (43 fourth-, 20 fifth- and 12 sixth-year students) at the end of a training clerkship.Results. The mean scores were respectively: 51.84±8.22, 54.94±7.30 and