Assessing radiology resident reporting skills.

Purpose: To develop an Objective Structured Clinical Examination for assessing the reporting skills of radiology residents.

Materials And Methods: The approach used in this study derives from performance-based assessment, that is, tests in which actual performance of a skill is observed and measured. For this task, 29 radiology residents and five faculty members (n = 34) independently dictated reports regarding a set of 20 cases with radiographs in 1 hour.