Evaluation of a telemedicine-based training for final-year medical students including simulated patient consultations, documentation, and case presentation.
GMS J Med Educ
; 37(7): Doc94, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-972037
ABSTRACT
Background:
Focused history taking, knowledge-based clinical reasoning, and adequate case presentation during hand-offs represent important facets of competence of practicing physicians. Based on a validated 360-degree assessment simulating a first day of residency we developed a training for final-year medical students including patient consultation, patient management, and patient hand-off. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the training was changed to a telemedicine format and evaluated.Methods:
In 2019, 103 final-year students participated in a newly designed competence-based training including a consultation hour with simulated patients, a patient management phase with an electronic patient chart, and a case presentation in hand-off format. Due to social distancing regulations, the training was not allowed to take place in this way. Therefore, we changed the training to a telemedicine format. In May 2020, 32 students participated in the telemedicine training. A 5-point Likert scale (1 does not apply to 5 fully applies) was used for the evaluation items. The two formats were compared with t-tests.Results:
The students were similarly satisfied with the content of the training independently of its format. Both groups found the patient cases interesting (presence 4.68 ± 0.49, telemedicine 4.66 ± 0.48). With respect to the telemedicine format, participants were glad that an option had been found that could be offered throughout the final year (4.94 ± 0.24) despite the COVID-19 pandemic and they regarded it as a very useful training for their final examination (4.94 ± 0.24).Conclusion:
The telemedicine format of the competence-based training worked as well as the presence format. In its telemedicine format, the training can be offered to students independently of their location.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Telemedicine
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Education, Distance
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Education, Medical
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
GMS J Med Educ
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Zma001387
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