Article History
Received: 11 December 2019
Accepted: 17 August 2020
First Online: 20 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Examinees registering for examinations with the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) sign an agreement allowing the collected data to be used for quality assurance studies. This study used MCC data to inform OSCEs scoring methods in order to ensure fair and reliable examinations. As per Privacy and Confidentiality of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (2013)—Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects, every precaution was taken to protect the privacy of the examinees and the confidentiality of their personal information. When the final research dataset was assembled, all identifiers were deleted; only aggregate summaries are presented. This quality assurance study was reviewed by the Research Advisory Committee and the Central Examination Committee to the Medical Council of Canada and follows the principles of the Tri-council Policy Statement regarding the ethical conduct of research.