APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMI-NATION (OSCE) IN THE SPECIALTY 221 "DENTISTRY"

Pedagogical assessment means a series of processes used to determine what a student knows, understands and is able to do. These processes are closely related to learning processes. Depending on the goal, we can divide the assessment into two types: formative and final. Formative assessment is sometimes referred to as "learning assessment". It is part of the learning cycle and provides feedback on achievements, and is the basis for decision-making on the next steps in learning. The final assessment is conducted at the end of the curriculum and is designed to determine how well the student has achieved the objectives of the curriculum. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was first described by Harden in 1975 as an alternative to the existing methods of assessing clinical performance. The OSCE was designed to improve the validity and reliability of assessment of performance, which was previously assessed using the long case and short case examinations. Since then the use of the OSCE has become widespread within both undergraduate and postgraduate clinical education. We recognise that the introduction of the OSCE into an existing assessment programme is a challenging process requiring a consider-able amount of theoretical and practical knowledge. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a modern type of assessment of students' prac-tical knowledge and skills designed to test their acquisi-tion of clinical skills and competencies that cannot be assessed by traditional forms of examination. Carrying out OSCE for the first time is a difficult task that requires a significant concentration of energy and time from the staff of the University, the Faculty of Dentistry of IFNMU and graduate departments. Requires an under-standing of the basic educational principles of OSCE. The paper highlights the stages of design and planning of the exam in the specialty 221 "Dentistry", the main de-velopments, analysis of problems that have arisen, and tasks to ensure the quality and standardization of OSCE. The Dean's Office of the Faculty of Dentistry has taken on the role of the administrative and methodo-logical center for the development and implementation of OSCE in the specialty "Dentistry". Conducting any exams inevitably generates a lot of administrative work, OSCE is no exception. Ideally, such tasks should be per-formed by a special administrative group, but this func-tion has been taken over by the faculty management. Distribution and organization of students by examination stations, distribution and execution of examination doc-uments and work on summarizing the results of the exam will be undertaken by the secretariat of the final examination commission. It is necessary to continue to update the bank of OSCE algorithms, to train examiners and standardized patients. To recommend to the graduating departments to carry out the practical part of the final modular controls in the form of a pilot OSCE, which will allow students to improve the performance of clinical tasks.