TY - JOUR AU - Matin, Shazia Babar AU - Afzal, Azam Saeed PY - 2021/09/09 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The “new-normal” OSCE examination: Executing in the COVID-19 era JF - Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences JA - Pak J Med Sci VL - 37 IS - 7 SE - Short Communication DO - 10.12669/pjms.37.7.4568 UR - https://pjms.org.pk/index.php/pjms/article/view/4568 SP - AB - In this unprecedented situation of COVID-19 era, the educational institutions have to attune not only the teaching strategies but also the assessment. Similarly, just as COVID precautions have become the “new normal” practice, hence implementation changes during face-to-face examinations may become standard practice in the Post- COVID era. The Objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) which usually require a face-to-face assessment of skills, posed a special challenge to health professionals in COVID-19. This commentary paper is written on shared experiences of the examination cell principal resource faculty for OSCE and exam coordinators. It addresses how to plan and implement objective, valid, feasible and reliable clinical skills examinations (OSCEs) keeping in place COVID precautions to ensure the utmost wellbeing of all stakeholders involved.doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.7.4568How to cite this:Babar S, Afzal A. The “new-normal” OSCE examination: Executing in the COVID-19 era. Pak J Med Sci. 2021;37(7):2026-2028.  doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.7.4568This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ER -