{"id":1942,"date":"2019-01-25T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:19:15","slug":"using-panopto-for-observed-simulated-practical-examinations-ospes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mle\/2019\/01\/25\/using-panopto-for-observed-simulated-practical-examinations-ospes\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Panopto for Observed Simulated Practical Examinations (OSPE\u2019s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the summer of 2018\u00a0Level 2 of building 67 was transformed into a set of \u201cSkills Laboratories\u201d for the department of Health Sciences. A key service that iSolutions provides to these spaces is the ability to record activities via a Panopto solution. One such activity is the Observed Simulated Practical Examinations (or OSPE\u2019s) for physiotherapy students who are on the cardio-vascular & respiratory pathways. These assessments are carried out in replica hospital wards and recreate what an on-call physiotherapist would expect to find when called out by the ward nurses for patients who need a physiotherapist\u2019s care. Human models act the part of patients and are briefed with a real-life scenario and an experienced staff member will play the role of the ward nurse. At times a young woman will be playing the part an aging male patient with COPD. Bed notes and x-rays are available if relevant and the student will at times be subject to a pre-site phone call before being brought to the ward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Each of the two wards is equipped with four cameras and six microphones, these are controlled in a separate space known as the \u201ccontrol room\u201d. \u00a0We could potentially observe and record activity on all five of the beds that each ward has, but for the purpose of the assessments we only run two beds in each ward concurrently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the past, before the creation of the new laboratories, assessments of the above nature were purely observed by in-room assessors. These assessors would need to make notes and spend a day, or possibly two, writing up the results and feedback. With each assessor observing up to eight students over a two-day period this created a lot of extra work and was highly problematic. At this point, the process relied on assessors having very good note taking skills as well as a need for them to remember accurately detail from the assessments. There was also the problem of a lack of material available for external examiners.<\/p>\n

These issues lead to cameras being used to record the assessments. At first assessments were filmed using video cameras, which, came with all their physical issues such as; batteries running out; memory cards filling up; unreliable audio, and the break of immersion for the student as the camera was very visible and often on a large tripod. Data transfer, storage and sharing of the media was cumbersome and prone to human error.<\/p>\n

Due to the aforementioned problems, Panopto was introduced. This did take away some of the issues found with the old handheld cameras, such as eradicating the need for the department to manage the data, but, it did not solve the immersion issue. At this point there was often still a laptop, web camera, tripod and related cabling in the rooms not found within a ward. This method still needed someone in the room to start stop and monitor the recording at each station.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As part of the creation of the new \u201cSkills Laboratories\u201d, new equipment has been introduced. This has allowed that, within the workflow, assessments can be recorded and streamlined to one member of staff operating the Panopto recorders from within the control room. The only thing staff in the ward need to remember is to enable and keep the wireless tie clip microphones that the students wear charged.<\/p>\n

The benefits of this workflow have been:<\/p>\n