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The script concordance (SC) test was conceived to measure knowledge organization, the presence of links between items of knowledge which allow for interpretation of data in clinical decision making situations. Earlier studies have shown that the SC test has good psychometric qualities and overcomes some of the limitations of simulation clinical testing. This study explores the predictive validity of the test.

To verify whether scores obtained by students at the end of clerkship predict their clinical reasoning performance at the end of residency.

Comparison of scores obtained on a SC test taken at the end of clerkship with those obtained 2 years later at the end of residency on two clinical reasoning assessments of known validity, called the short‐answer management problems (SAMPs) and the simulated office orals (SOOs), and an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE …