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A prospective cross-sectional pilot ran for six months in a tertiary hospital, involving 28 MBBS students and 15 faculty across three OSCE stations. Results show significant station-wise differences, strong internal consistency, improved inter-rater reliability after calibration, and high student satisfaction. 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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0. , which permits unrestricted use , distribution , and reproduction in any medium , provided the original author and source are credited.  \nDOI: 10.7759/cureus.92992  \nOpen Access Original Article  \nPublished via Christian Medical College, Ludhiana  \nAssessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in Undergraduate Surgical Training: A Pilot Study  \nSreejith Kannummal Veetil 1, Parvez D. Haque 1, Deepak Jain 1 , Mukul Garg Binay K. Pramanik 1  \n1. General Surgery, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, IND Corresponding author: Sreejith Kannummal Veetil, [drsreejithkv@hotmail.com](drsreejithkv@hotmail.com)  \n1, Suchita Rajoria 1,  \nAbstract  \nBackground: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is central to competency-based medical education, yet its adoption in resource-limited general surgery settings is underexplored. This pilot study assessed the feasibility, reliability, and acceptability of implementing an OSCE in India’s National Medical Council (NMC)-mandated undergraduate curriculum.  \nMethods: A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary hospital’s general surgery department over six months. Twenty-eight MBBS students and 15 faculty participated. Three OSCE stations assessed pancreatitis management, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) primary survey, and historytaking for abdominal pain, using standardized checklists and rating scales. Faculty underwent calibration workshops. Reliability was assessed with Cronbach’s α and Cohen’s κ . Stakeholder feedback was evaluated through structured surveys.  \nResults: Student performance differed significantly across stations (F = 6 .21, p = 0 .002); the ATLS station had the highest scores (9 .1 ± 0.8) . Internal consistency was strong (Cronbach’s α: students 0.84, faculty 0. 79), and inter-rater reliability improved post training (κ: 0.42 to 0. 78) . Female students excelled in communication (p = 0 .023) . OSCEs caused less stress than traditional exams (p \u003C 0 .001), and greater preparation correlated with reduced stress. Student satisfaction reached 92 .9%, but faculty reported limited resources (2 .9/5) . Prior OSCE experience among faculty improved station realism (p = 0 .015) .  \nConclusion: OSCEs in general surgery were feasible, reliable, and well-accepted by students but highlighted the need for better resources, robust faculty training, and institutional support for scalability and sustainability.  \nCategories: Medical Education, Medical Simulation, Quality Improvement  \nKeywords: clinical skills assessment, competency-based medical education (cbme), general surgery education, objective structured clinical examination (osce), undergraduate curriculum  \nIntroduction  \nThe evolution of medical education assessment has been fundamentally shaped by the imperative to move beyond traditional clinical examinations toward more competency-based approaches. The competencybased undergraduate curriculum of the National Medical Commission (NMC) marks a paradigm shift in  \nwhich various aspects of teaching, including instructional strategies and assessment practices, come  \ntogether to form the framework of competencies. This creates a foundation that calls for the incorporation  \nof structured assessment methods in order to produce an Indian medical graduate who is sufficiently  \nprepared [1] . This educational transformation builds upon the foundational work established by Harden et al.  \nin 1975, who introduced the concept of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to address and mitigate the numerous limitations inherent in conventional clinical examination methods. 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