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- Title
Views of final-year medical students at Damascus University about clinical skills acquired before graduation.
- Authors
Alourfi, Z.; ElSayed Hassan, R.; Koudsi, A.
- Abstract
Medical education in Syrian universities is facing many challenges that may affect the quality of the education and the standard of graduates. We therefore conducted a cross-sectional study using a self-administrated questionnaire with 76 items to investigate the perceptions of 290 final-year medical students regarding the confidence of performing some core clinical skills. A total of 271 responded (response rate 93.4%). Student responses differed. While confidence was highest for skills that do not require practice in the clinical skills laboratory, it was low for skills that need training in emergency and intensive care units, or when students were participating in patient care with partial responsibility. Our findings confirm the need for effective clinical laboratory training, student participation in emergency room shifts, and that students to be allowed to take some degree of responsibility.
- Subjects
CLINICAL competence; PSYCHOLOGY of medical students; STUDY &; teaching of medicine; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENT attitudes; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 6, p671
- ISSN
1020-3397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26719/2012.18.6.671