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Clinical Assessment: NBEMS OSCE Framework

The NBEMS, in response to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, had pioneered a

centrally delivered, virtual Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for DNB and DrNB
exit examinations. Since

its inception in 2019,
NBEMS has conducted

virtual OSCE across 12
sessions in 15-20

specialties. Out of all the

OSCEs conducted by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) since 2019,
the June 2025 DNB Final Practical examination in the specialty of Obstetrics & Gynaecology saw

the largest OSCE ever conducted by candidate count. With 1,245 candidates appearing across the
country, the DNB OBG OSCE represents the largest virtual clinical assessment ever organised by the

NBEMS, or perhaps any medical examination body across the globe, in a single specialty in one
session. By adopting this internationally recognized assessment tool, NBEMS ensures a uniform,

objective, and transparent mechanism for evaluating the clinical competencies of medical specialists

across India.

The June 2025 OBG OSCE is significant on several levels. It is the first time a single specialty has

crossed the 1,200-candidate mark in an NBEMS virtual OSCE, demonstrating that the model - born
out of pandemic-time necessity - has now matured into a robust, scalable, fair and uniformly delivered

assessment instrument capable of handling the highest-volume clinical specialties in India.

For NBEMS, the OBG OSCE of June 2025 is a milestone that confirms India's largest postgraduate
medical examination body can deliver a fair, secure, and standardised practical examination to over

a thousand candidates of a single specialty in a session - a benchmark few examination systems in
the world can match.

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