2013年12月1日
Content analysis of medical students' seminars: a unique method of analyzing clinical thinking.
BMC medical education
- 巻
- 13
- 号
- 開始ページ
- 156
- 終了ページ
- 156
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1186/1472-6920-13-156
- 出版者・発行元
- BMC
BACKGROUND: The study of communication skills of Asian medical students during structured Problem-based Learning (PBL) seminars represented a unique opportunity to assess their critical thinking development. This study reports the first application of the health education technology, content analysis (CA), to a Japanese web-based seminar (webinar). METHODS: The authors assigned twelve randomly selected medical students from two universities and two clinical instructors to two virtual classrooms for four PBL structured tutoring sessions that were audio-video captured for CA. Both of the instructors were US-trained physicians. This analysis consisted of coding the students' verbal comments into seven types, ranging from trivial to advanced knowledge integration comments that served as a proxy for clinical thinking. RESULTS: The most basic level of verbal simple responses accounted for a majority (85%) of the total students' verbal comments. Only 15% of the students' comments represented more advanced types of critical thinking. The male students responded more than the female students; male students attending University 2 responded more than male students from University 1. The total mean students' verbal response time for the four sessions with the male instructor was 6.9%; total mean students' verbal response time for the four sessions with the female instructor was 19% (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: This report is the first to describe the application of CA to a multi-university real time audio and video PBL medical student clinical training webinar in two Japanese medical schools. These results are preliminary, mostly limited by a small sample size (n = 12) and limited time frame (four sessions). CA technology has the potential to improve clinical thinking for medical students. This report may stimulate improvements for implementation.
- リンク情報
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- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-13-156
- PubMed
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24289320
- PubMed Central
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220556
- Web of Science
- https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000328497100001&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1186/1472-6920-13-156
- ISSN : 1472-6920
- PubMed ID : 24289320
- PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC4220556
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000328497100001