An experimental study looking at whether the medical student’s non-native English accent affects the examiner’s scoring during an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)

A randomised controlled trial of the influence of non-native English accents on examiners’ scores in OSCEs

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN17360102

Enrollment

100

Registered

2020-04-15

Start date

2019-03-13

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-10-19

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Conditions

Undergraduate medical education and clinical skills assessment. Not Applicable

Interventions

Four videos of one mock OSCE station will be produced. A professional actor plays a medical student. Two near-identical scripts are prepared. Two videos show the actor speaking with an Indian accent

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: OSCE examiners in the UK who have had formal OSCE examiner training

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Global scores and individual item scores given by the OSCE examiners at the time of watching the video.	—

Countries

United Kingdom

Contacts

Public ContactAn Kozato

a.kozato@smd15.qmul.ac.uk+44 (0)20 7882 2239

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 26, 2026