Recall Knowledge of Biochemistry for Interns after Graduation from Medical Schools

Autor: Asma Almohanna, Ahmed El Tahir Idris, Gwiria M. H. Satti, Muaawia A. Hamza, Abdalla A. Saeed, Nasser A. Al-Hamdan, Abdulaziz AlKabaa
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: International Journal of Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics. :16-19
ISSN: 2010-3638
Popis: — New medical graduates were recruited during their internship programme biochemistry in their 'traditional' basic science course. It f r o m 10 teaching hospital s for a cross - sectional study, carried out in Riyadh area, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . A total of 200 participants were included in the study. All the p articipants filled out the study questionnaire . The questionnaire contained 10 basic B iochemistry questions that the graduates were supposed to recall answers for those questions from their prior knowledge . Other information included were gender, medical s chool attended, year of graduation, training hospital, whether preparing for board examination such as USMLE and PLAB. R esults revealed that out of the 200 participants recruited for this study , 124 were males and 76 were females. 26% of the participants g raduated from medical schools adopting PBL curriculum whereas 74% were from traditional medical schools. Less than
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