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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.

Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
|January 1, 1991
PubMed
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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.

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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.

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  • 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.