Resumen

FLORES HERNANDEZ, Fernando; CONTRERAS MICHEL, Nancy  y  MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Adrián. Learning assessment in medical education. Rev. Fac. Med. (Méx.) [online]. 2012, vol.55, n.3, pp.42-48. ISSN 2448-4865.

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of educational evaluation in the context of health sciences, specifically in the field of medicine. To do this, a review of the state of the art of evaluation was performed, emphasizing the fundamental concepts in theoretical and methodological development and the scope of educational evaluation in higher education. The need to develop evaluation instruments consistent with the graduate profiles according to the syllabus of medicine is highlighted, and the evaluation of medical competence through instruments such as the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), which by its characteristics is considered as a useful tool in the field of assessment of medical competency in the international context, is also assessed.

Palabras llave : Evaluation; learning; competencies.