Background: To improve clinical performance assessment, checklist data should be immediately available to students to offer them detailed feedback and be stored in a database for quality assurance purposes.
Aim: To introduce the digital pen as clinical performance assessment tool, report examiner satisfaction and explore the utility of generated checklist data for quality assurance purposes.
Methods: The digital pen technology transmits examiners' handwritten assessments to a database and exports PDF-files to students' mailboxes.