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Theme: Teaching and Learning |
Abstract Title | ||
Impact of courses implementing continuous assessment on student's achievements in both final course and University Of Maastricht progress test exam results. Sulaiman Al Rajhi Colleges. Internal medicine rotation experience |
Authors: |
Dr.Mohammed Ewid Dr.Abdulla Rehman Dr.Nabil Amer Dr Hossam Sherif Dr M. Siddique Shahid |
Institutions: | Sulaiman Al Rajhi Colleges-KSA Faculty of medicine-Cairo university-Egypt |
Competency based medical education is the new trend worlwide taking into consideration the practical life demands of the graduates.
One of the best tools to achieve competency based education is continous workplace assessment,in Our college (Sulaiman Al Rajhi college of medicine) we adopted continuous work place training, assessment and feedback.
In current study we tried to test the impact of implementing continuous assessment on student's achievements in both final course and University Of Maastricht progress test exam results during Internal medicine rotation.
Continuous assessment tools we are implementing in our college include;Daily Observed patient contact,weekly Mini-CEXs/quizzes and continous feedback.
We selected a 4th year group of students who finalized internal medicine rotation utilizing continuous clinical assessment tools and compared their cumulative continuous assessment (Weekly Mini-CEXs plus weekly quizzes) results and end of rotation results.
Also to see the effect of the internal medicine rotation on UM progress test results, we analyzed the final results of two UM progress tests one just held before and the other after internal medicine rotation, moreover we analyzed the detailed internal medicine section results of both tests for the same group of students.
We used T test for group comparison.
We found significant improvement in UM progress test group performance reflected by increased percentage of good students from 20% to 50%, and decrease of percentage of failing students from 20% to 0 % in the pre to post internal medicine progress tests respectively (Figure; 1, 2)
with significant P value (0.00167) between student's final scores in both tests (figure;3)
Also we found significant relation between the cumulative result of continuous assessment and result of end of rotation assessment with p value;0.01406 (Figure;4);
Internal medicine rotation implementing continuous assessment tools had significantly improved student's performance in UM progress test, more over structured continuous assessment is positively correlated and predicts end of rotation results.
Work place teaching and continous assessment is very useful, effective and should be adopted into our medical course specifications.