Metacognition, OSCE performance anxiety and OSCE performance

摘要

O'Carroll and Fisher studied anxiety in a sample of 240 first-year medical students by measuring, prior to an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), their general tendency to worry, perceived cognitive control of attention, demographic variables, and performance anxiety related specifically to the upcoming OSCE. This is an important topic as the OSCE is one of the more anxiety-producing examinations for medical and nursing students.