Impact of integrating objective structured clinical examination into academic student assessment: Large-scale experience in a French medical school.

Purpose: Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE) evaluate clinical reasoning, communication skills, and interpersonal behavior during medical education. In France, clinical training has long relied on bedside clinical practice in academic hospitals. The need for a simulated teaching environment has recently emerged, due to the increasing number of students admitted to medical schools, and the necessity of objectively evaluating practical skills.

How Drug Use by French Elderly Patients Has Changed During the Last Decade.

Background: In France the most recent data on drug use by the elderly living at home were published in 2000. Since then the available drugs and their use have changed.

Objective: We compared data collected in 2011 with the 2000 data to evaluate how drug use has changed in France.