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Comparing students' feedback about clinical instruction with their performances
D C Anderson1, I B Harris, S Allen
1Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Minneapolis, MN 55415.
Summary
Student feedback accurately reflects teaching effectiveness in clinical skills courses. Positive student evaluations correlated with higher scores on objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE), validating feedback as a reliable measure.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Clinical Skills Assessment
Background:
- Validating student feedback for teaching effectiveness in clinical skills courses is challenging.
- Assessing students' clinical skills mastery reliably has been a significant hurdle.
Purpose of the Study:
- To correlate student feedback with objective measures of teaching effectiveness.
- To determine if student feedback accurately reflects performance in clinical skills training.
Main Methods:
- 190 second-year medical students were assigned to four clinical sites for a neurology course.
- Student feedback was collected post-rotation, and performance was assessed via a 20-station Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
Main Results:
- Students consistently provided more positive feedback for teaching at hospital A.
- Students trained at hospital A demonstrated significantly better performance on two of four neurology-related OSCE stations.
Conclusions:
- Student feedback can be a valid and reliable indicator of teaching effectiveness in clinical skills education.
- Positive student evaluations align with objective performance measures, supporting feedback's utility.