Title: A comparative study of two evaluation techniques in Community Medicine: Structured Viva – Voce examination versus Traditional Viva examination

Abstract

ABSTRACT:

Introduction:

Assessment and evaluation is an integral part of medicine. Viva-voce examination is one of the methods of assessment in medicine. Viva examination is very important as all domains can be tested. The present study is carried out to compare between   traditional viva examination and structured viva examination.

Material and methods:

Study design: Qualitative Research study was conducted on VII^th semester students in the formative assessment.

A Pretested, Structured Designed Questionnaire was prepared.

The response of the students on 5 point likert scale was taken after the traditional viva and structured viva examination.

Results:

Total students examined with the structured viva examination were 52.

Student’s response was taken on 5 point likert scale after traditional viva method and structured viva examination. The chi square test is applied to each question to compare with traditional and structured viva voce examination.  

Feeling  anxiety when facing examiners, Impact of prior impression of student, Appearance of student has effect,  first or last roll numbers of the students, each examiner having different scoring system, examiner’s mood while assessing the traditional and structured viva examination were found to be statistically significant.

Discussion: Structured viva examination can overcome the limitations of traditional viva method provided that the cards should be prepared in such a way that all topics to be covered and difficulty level of questions is equal.