Kourosh Vahidshahi; Mitra Mahmoudi; Mansour Ranjbar; Leila Shahbaznezhad; Sara Ehteshami; sajad shafiei
Volume 8, Issue 1 , July 2011, , Pages 94-100
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Background & Objective: Nowadays early clinical experience (ECE) in Medical education has been developed with the aim of establishing efficient relationship between basic sciences courses and clinical education This study was done to evaluate the effect of early clinical experience on the attitudes ...
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Background & Objective: Nowadays early clinical experience (ECE) in Medical education has been developed with the aim of establishing efficient relationship between basic sciences courses and clinical education This study was done to evaluate the effect of early clinical experience on the attitudes of students in Sari School of Medicine toward basic sciences courses Methods: This interventional study (before and after) was done on all Sari Medical students in the 4th semester of basic sciences program An ECE program in 8 sessions was designed and developed during the 4th academic semester Attitudes of the students toward clinical importance of basic sciences courses were asked before and after the program by a valid and reliable questionnaire Data were analyzed using Wilcoxon Chisquare and McNemar tests and through SPSS 13 software package Results: From 47 students 42 ones were participated in the study (response rate= 89%) of whom 25 ones were female (60%) Early clinical experience could only affect the attitude of students in neuroanatomy course (P
Mohammadreza Haghshenas; Kourosh Vahidshahi; Mitra Mahmudi; Leyla Shahbaznejad; Nikoo Parvinnejad; Aazam Emadi
Volume 5, Issue 2 , January 2009, , Pages 120-127
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Background & Objective : Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are the commonest form of exams in medical education which are highly reliable however their structural and content validity taxonomy and structural principles have always been considered by researchers This study was designed to evaluate ...
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Background & Objective : Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are the commonest form of exams in medical education which are highly reliable however their structural and content validity taxonomy and structural principles have always been considered by researchers This study was designed to evaluate quality of MCQs in the school medicine Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences regarding taxonomy and structural principles Methods : In this descriptive study all MCQs of written exams held during a whole semester in the school of medical in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences were evaluated All questions were assessed according to taxonomy (in three levels of recall comprehension and application) and structure using a checklist which was based on Millmans principles for designing stem and choices of questions Results : Among 1478 questions related to 25 exams questions related to lessons of basic sciences physiopathology and clerkship were 287% 187% 526% respectively 774 percent of questions were in Taxonomy I and the rest were designed in Taxonomy II and III 46 percent of all questions had no structural problems while the rest had one or more structural problems Taxonomy and structural problems in exams related to clerkship and physiopathology were significantly less than basic science lessons (p=0023 and p=0001 respectively) Questions of higher taxonomy had less structural problems Conclusion : Our present study showed that the quality of MCQs regarding structural principles and taxonomy were different in exams of different levels which necessitate further revisions
