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Hershey Bell¹, William Donohue, Yuhua Jake Liang

¹Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, USA.

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First-year medical students feel most confident in professionalism but least confident in managing their curriculum. Key predictors of curricular involvement include student learning and knowledge of osteopathic principles.

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Area of Science:

Medical Education
Osteopathic Medicine
Student Assessment

Background:

Defining learning competencies is crucial for medical student development.
Clinical competencies serve as a parallel framework for learning assessments.
Assessing first-year medical students' self-perceived competencies is essential for curriculum improvement.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and implement a learning competency assessment survey for first-year osteopathic medical students.
To evaluate the reliability and internal structure of the developed survey instrument.
To identify students' confidence levels in various learning competencies and predictors of curricular involvement.

Main Methods:

A self-assessment survey was administered to 1,998 first-year osteopathic medical students across 25 institutions.
The survey focused on learning competencies defined parallel to clinical competencies.
Regression analysis was used to determine predictors of curricular involvement.

Main Results:

The learning competency assessment survey demonstrated strong internal structure and item reliability.
Students reported highest confidence in professionalism and lowest confidence in curriculum management.
Student Learning and Improvement, Osteopathic Philosophy and Skills, Interpersonal Communication, and Systems Knowledge best predicted curricular involvement.

Conclusions:

The developed survey is a reliable tool for assessing learning competencies in first-year osteopathic medical students.
Curriculum management and faculty/advisor support are areas needing attention for first-year medical students.
Confidence in foundational medical knowledge and professionalism did not significantly predict students' ability to navigate medical school curricula.