ABSTRACT
Background: experience of cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] in real clinical setting is not easily possible for all medical students
Purpose: to assess medical student perceived self-sufficiency on three procedural skill on internship courses after they had taken a training course in clerkship period
Methods: forty three medical students who had attended a workshop on CPR, tracheal intubations and venopuncture answered the questionnaires on their perceived self-sufficiency in performing these procedures after serving a few months as interns
Results: the mean score for perceived self-sufficiency [PSS] was 75.84 [+/-18.63].Thre were a high correlation between the score given for the applicability of training in real life situation and the stress reduction scores on first time performing the procedure
Conclusion: the high degree of correlation between PSS scores and applicability scores, may warrant the consideration of new methods in procedural skills