Do primary health centres and hospitals contribute equally towards achievement of the transversal clinical competencies of medical students? Performance on the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in competency acquisition

Autor: Toni Rodriguez, Jorge Soler-González, Eduard Peñascal, Miquel Buti, Victoria Ayala, Jordi Boada
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Students
Medical
020205 medical informatics
Higher education
Objective structured clinical examination
education
Competencias
02 engineering and technology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Nursing
Primary health
Internship
Educación médica
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Teaching innovation
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Competences
Competence (human resources)
Curriculum
Health science education
Primary Care
Medicine(all)
lcsh:R5-920
Academic year
business.industry
Atención Primaria
General Medicine
Achievement
Originales
Innovación docente
Spain
Evaluación de competencias clínicas estructurada
Objective Structured Clinical Examination
Clinical Competence
Educational Measurement
Descriptive research
business
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Family Practice
Zdroj: Atencion Primaria
Atención Primaria, Vol 48, Iss 1, Pp 42-48 (2016)
Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
instname
Repositorio Abierto de la UdL
Universitad de Lleida
ISSN: 0212-6567
DOI: 10.1016/j.aprim.2015.02.005
Popis: Objectives The adaptation of the educational programmes of European faculties of medicine to the European Higher Education Area guidelines has focused curricula design on competence acquisition. Competencies are defined as the achievements of a predetermined level of efficacy in real-world scenarios. Our objective was to assess whether performance on a common competence evaluation test, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), resulted in different scores for second-year students after a practical medical training course took place in a primary health centre (PHC) or in a hospital. Design A descriptive study was conducted during the 2010–2014 academic year of the OSCE test scores obtained by all second-year students. Location Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). Main measurements We performed a correlation analysis between students who completed their practical medical training at the PHC and hospitals utilising Student's t -test for comparison of means. Results 423 students who completed internships at the PHC and at hospitals obtained OSCE mean scores of 7.32 (SD; IC) (0.82; 7.18–7.47) points and 7.17 (0.83; 6.07–7.26) points, respectively ( p = 0.07). Conclusions Second-year medical students acquired similar competency levels in the two analysed training scenarios. The two areas both serve their teaching purpose.
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