Association between Clinical Experience in Trauma and the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Scores
Keywords:
OSCE, clinical experience, evaluation, educationAbstract
Objectives: Medical students during their final year at Prince of Songkla University have anopportunity to be exposed to real clinical situations in a clinical clerkship. This study evaluates the number of trauma
cases the medical students were exposed to during their final year before comprehensive examination, and
determines the correlation between the number of cases and the examination scores.
Methods: A questionnaire was sent to final year medical students at the end of their rotations in the final
semester. They were asked to report the number of trauma cases they were exposed to during the rotation. The
Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was done at the end of the rotation. The Spearman rank
correlation was used to assess the association between the number of cases that they were exposed to and the OSCE
scores in a trauma station.
Results: Of 176 students, 119 students responded to the questionnaires (68%). The median numbers of injured
patients that the medical students were exposed to when they were at the university hospital and affiliated hospitals
were 20 cases and 100 cases, respectively. The number of cases was not correlated with the communication skills
assessment (rank correlation, r = –0.11, p = 0.23) or the medical performance(rank correlation, r = 0.0004, p = 0.99).
Conclusions: The number of trauma cases that the medical students were exposed to had no effect on the OSCE
scores.
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to an experience-based learning model of clinical
education. Perspect Med Educ 2013;2:58-71.
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clinical experience affect performance of clinical clerks on
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2016-07-19
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Akaraborworn O, Kongkamol C, Kumkong G. Association between Clinical Experience in Trauma and the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Scores. Thai J Surg [Internet]. 2016 Jul. 19 [cited 2024 Nov. 22];37(3). Available from: https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ThaiJSurg/article/view/225833
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