Does voluntary practice improve the outcome of an OSCE in undergraduate medical studies? A Propensity Score Matching approach

• Stefanos A. Tsikas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Tsikas.Stefanos@mh-hannover.de

  Affiliation Dean of Studies Office – Academic Controlling, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-5456

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• Kambiz Afshar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute for General Practice and Palliative Care, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9959-3106

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• Volkhard Fischer

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation

  Affiliation Dean of Studies Office – Academic Controlling, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8499-9437

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