Learner perception of oral and written examinations in an international medical training program

Table 1 Learner perception of examination usefulness

	Oral examinations	Written examinations
Should this examination type be used in training programs in the future?	96% yes	96% yes
Should this examination type be used for accreditation in EM?	100% yes	92% yes
Useful in measuring fund of knowledge?	100% yes	96% yes
Useful in measuring clinical abilities?^a	83% yes^b	67% yes

^aStatistically significant difference between oral and written testing methods in measuring clinical abilities (chi-square = 11.07, p < 0.01). No other statistically significant differences noted between oral and written testing methods
^bMissing data: 1 of the 24 respondents did not respond to this question

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