生物统计学内容在许可证考试学习辅助工具和当代医学研究之间的错位
W Connor Haycox1, Dmitry Tumin2
1Department of Family Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Family medicine
|January 8, 2025
概括
医疗学员在统计学方面遇到了困难. 执照考试材料并不涵盖当前生物医学研究中使用的全部统计方法,这表明存在很大的教育差距.
科学领域:
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
- 医学教育 医学教育
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
背景情况:
- 医学实习生报告了在临床研究中解释统计方法的挑战.
- 医疗专业人员在生物统计学知识方面存在教育差距.
研究的目的:
- 将生物医学文献中的统计方法与医学执照考试研究材料中的生物统计内容进行比较.
- 识别当代统计实践与教育资源之间的差异.
主要方法:
- 从2023年开始,在三个主要医学期刊中对273篇原始数据分析文章进行了文献内容分析.
- 从三个商业许可证考试研究资源中编制和分析统计方法.
- 在20个领域创建统一的统计方法和概念列表.
主要成果:
- 确定了1,057个独特的关键词,映射到20个统计领域.
- 文章中的高频统计领域包括错误,显著性,功率分析和分类数据比较.
- 63%的分析文章包含了在任何审查的研究资源中都不涉及的统计方法.
结论:
- 当前的医疗执照考试准备材料不充分反映了现代生物医学研究中使用的统计数据的范围.
- 需要进行教育干预,以提高医学学生对研究协议和先进数据分析技术的理解.
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