Hi all,
I'm in my second last year of MPharm at a highly ranked university. A few years ago at this uni they changed how OSCEs work so that you have to pass every station to pass overall, and you aren't given any feedback if you fail. Over half of all students fail every year (sometimes around 80-90%) and have to resit.
Am I right in thinking that this is abnormal, or do other pharmacy courses run their OSCEs like this? It's incredibly stressful and doesn't feel like a fair assessment to me. I want to know if my uni is an outlier here.
If you recognise which university I mean, please don't name it.
EDIT: to clarify, I'm NOT talking about "red flags". You can fail for literally any reason, not solely causing serious harm. It's not like 80% of my year are accidentally giving penicillin to an allergic patient. I can't be more specific in reasons for failing though unfortunately, because we don't get any specific feedback. Also, I'd really like to know specifically about no individual feedback/support for students who failed, is that routine? And the large amount of students failing every year?