Teaching critical decision-making skills to students concerning patients with acute abdominal pain
作者:
HillDavid A.,
McCarthyWilliam H.,
GuineaAna I.,
期刊:
Medical Teacher
(Taylor Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 2-3
页码: 159-166
ISSN:0142-159X
年代: 1994
DOI:10.3109/01421599409006726
出版商: Taylor&Francis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The clinical performance of junior hospital staff concerning the management of patients with acute abdominal pain, may be enhanced by placing greater emphasis on teaching clinical decision-making skills during the pre-intern year. Final year medical students at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) took part in a teaching session where groups of 6–8 rotated through six stations, each structured to present a critical management problem concerning a patient with acute abdominal pain. Students, guided by a tutor, spent 25 minutes at each station, working through the sequence of data acquisition and data analysis before making a management decision. To assess the educational value of the programme, the study group completed a sequence of pre-test, structured teaching and post-test over a period of 2 weeks. Their multiple choice question (MCQ) performance was compared with a control group from a different campus who also did the pre-and post-test but without the teaching. The study group (n = 38) significantly (p<0.001) improved their MCQ mark from a pre-test mean 68% (SD 8) to 74% (SD 6) following the teaching. The performance of the control group (n = 25), with no teaching, did not change significantly (p = 0.5) between pre-test (mean 66% SD 13) and post-test (mean 68% SD 6). The method appears an effective way to teach critical decision-making skills to medical students. Students regarded the innovation as educationally more effective than traditional teaching methods.
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