Application of mentorship-Leichester assessment package model in general practice teaching / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To evaluate the effectiveness of mentorship-Leichester assessment package (LAP) model in general practice teaching.Methods:Sixty five-year Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) students undergoing general medicine internship from July 2020 to December 2020 were divided into study group and control group with 30 students in each group. Students in study group undertook general practice internship in Fangzhuang Community Health Service Center with the mentorship-LAP model, including group-based teaching, weekly LAP case discussion and mentor-intern individualized LAP clinical practice teaching; students in control group undertook general practice internship in other community teaching bases with the traditional clinical practice training methods. After one month, students were evaluated with LAP score sheet and the evaluation results were compared between two groups.Results:After one month of training, the scores of medical history collection, physical examination, problem solving, patient management, doctor-patient relationship, expected care and medical records in both groups increased compared with pre-training (the control group t=4.23, 5.06, 8.94, 4.85, 3.99, 1.04, 5.13, study group t=1.86, 2.85, 12.42, 13.61, 6.29, 4.83, 5.63, all P<0.05). The scores of medical history collection, physical examination, problem solving, patient management, doctor-patient relationship, and expected care after training in the study group were higher than those in the control group ( t=5.66, 2.83, 5.67, 8.13, 2.76, 2.52, all P<0.05). After the training, in the medical history collection items, the scores of patient-centered communication, RICE recognition, and physical-psychological-social factors in study group were higher than those in the control group ( t=5.66, 7.35 and 2.66, all P<0.05); in the problem-solving items, the scores of clinical data application, comprehensive analysis ability and personal ability limitation in study group were higher than those in the control group ( t=4.32, 3.38 and 2.26, all P<0.05); in the patient management items, the scores of overall management plans, doctor-patient collaboration, dispelling doubts, subsequent visits/follow-up, and the degree of patient understanding the management plan in the study group were higher than those in the control group ( t=3.03, 2.07, 2.43, 3.15 and 2.17, all P<0.05). Conclusion:The mentorship-LAP teaching model is helpful to improve the effectiveness of general practice internship for medicine students.