Journal article
Implementing a Hybrid Web-Based Curriculum for an Elective Medical Student Clerkship in a Busy Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Effect on Test and Satisfaction Scores
Journal of surgical education, Vol.70(1), pp.109-116
01/2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2012.06.026
PMID: 23337679
Abstract
To determine whether a hybrid traditional and web-based curriculum improves test scores and enrollment among senior medical students in an elective critical care rotation.
Retrospective study in a surgical ICU at a major academic center.
One hundred twenty-one fourth year medical students completing an elective ICU clerkship between 2007 and 2010.
Pre-test and post-test during a 4-week rotation.
We implemented a hybrid curriculum that involved both traditional teaching methods and a new online core curriculum that incorporating audio, video, and text using screen capture technology. The curriculum was hosted on a secure online portal called ICON (Desire2Learn Inc., Ontario, Canada). The core curriculum covered topics that were considered essential to meet the didactic objectives of the rotation.
A pre-test was administered online on day 1 of the rotation. A post-test was administered on the second to last day of the rotation. Both tests were composed of 20 questions randomly chosen from a question bank of 100 questions. The tests are managed (administering, grading, and reporting) exclusively online.
One hundred twenty-one medical students have successfully completed the clerkship since implementing the new curriculum. Each group of students showed an improvement in the mean post-test score by at least 17%+ to 10%. The satisfaction scores of the clerkship improved consistently from 2007 and is currently rated at 4.31 ± 0.85 (on a 5-point scale). The rotation is in the top 25th percentile of all clinical clerkships offered at the University of Iowa.
A systematically implemented hybrid web-based critical care curriculum can improve knowledge based test scores and overall clerkship satisfaction scores in a busy surgical ICU.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Implementing a Hybrid Web-Based Curriculum for an Elective Medical Student Clerkship in a Busy Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Effect on Test and Satisfaction Scores
- Creators
- Avinash B Kumar - Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IowaJ. Steven Hata - Center for Critical Care Medicine and Departments of General Anesthesiology, Cardiac Anesthesiology, and Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OhioEmine O Bayman - Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IowaSundar Krishnan - Division of Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of surgical education, Vol.70(1), pp.109-116
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jsurg.2012.06.026
- PMID
- 23337679
- ISSN
- 1931-7204
- eISSN
- 1878-7452
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2013
- Academic Unit
- Biostatistics; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9983997490502771
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