Tabandeh Sadeghi; Maryam Shahabi
Volume 12, Supplement , July 2015, , Pages 228-236
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Background and Objective: Evaluation of students before entering the clinical field can be a reliable criterion for assessing the quality of students’ clinical skills. This study was performed with the aim of evaluating nursing students using objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) method ...
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Background and Objective: Evaluation of students before entering the clinical field can be a reliable criterion for assessing the quality of students’ clinical skills. This study was performed with the aim of evaluating nursing students using objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) method in order to assess students’ competence before entering the clinical environment.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the knowledge and practice of 39 nursing students were examined during 2 consecutive days before enter the clinical field in determined stations of the nursing skills laboratory of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Iran, using relevant checklists. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and descriptive and analytic statistics such as independent t-test and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
Results: Of the 39 participants, 22 (56.4%) were female, 17 (43.6%) were male. The mean age of participants was 21.85 ± 0.96. The highest score was related to writing of drug form, kardex, and nursing report (94.8%), and ECG procedure (74.7%), respectively. The least score belonged to tracheostomy suction (12.8%), and catheterization and subcutaneous injection procedures (25.6%), respectively.
Conclusion: According to the findings and considering the weaknesses of students, effective steps can be taken toward the improvement of their performance.
Sakineh Sabzevari; Abbas Abbaszadeh; Fariba Borhani
Volume 10, Issue 3 , October 2013, , Pages 385-397
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Background & Objective: Identifying clinical education problems is a challenge in training staffs and professional role acceptance This study aimed to identify nursing faculty perception from student evaluation challenges in medical surgical wards Methods: This was a descriptive qualitative ...
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Background & Objective: Identifying clinical education problems is a challenge in training staffs and professional role acceptance This study aimed to identify nursing faculty perception from student evaluation challenges in medical surgical wards Methods: This was a descriptive qualitative study Participants were 14 nursing faculty members and purposeful sampling was used until data saturation Interview was done for data collection All the interviews were recorded and then transcribed and analyzed Software One Note 2010 was used for documentation of interviews and extracted codes Manifest content analysis was used for data analysis Results: Four themes and 14 categories were emerged including superficial evaluation (face evaluation evaluation with invalid instrument modeless evaluation and detail center evaluation) unreal center evaluation (theory based evaluation unprofessional based evaluation tact based evaluation and help to average rise based evaluation) betbased evaluation (conservative evaluation student recompensebased evaluation of teacher and cliché type evaluation) and incomplete evaluation (unintegrated evaluation unclear evaluation and to digress of criterion reference evaluation) Conclusion: Modeless and noninstrumental evaluation was reported as important subjects that emphasized by faculty members Some interventions for fair evaluation were recommended as using valid instrument and proper approaches based on short and long goals for competent graduated to health care system entry
Javad Faryabi; Maryam Farzad; Neda Sinaee
Volume 6, Issue 1 , July 2009, , Pages 34-39
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Background & Objective : Clinical evaluation of medical students using OSCE has been introduced as an efficient way Nowadays this method is applied in some departments of Kerman School of Dentistry for clinical evaluation This research was conducted to assess the university students point ...
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Background & Objective : Clinical evaluation of medical students using OSCE has been introduced as an efficient way Nowadays this method is applied in some departments of Kerman School of Dentistry for clinical evaluation This research was conducted to assess the university students point of view about clinical evaluation using OSCE in Kerman University of Medical Sciences to inform educational authorities about present problems together with evaluating students opinions Methods : In this cross sectional study 89 dentistry students answered a questionnaire including 12 multiple choice questions and two open ended questions The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were already confirmed Results : According to the results of this study most of the students (786%) declared that holding practical final exams and clinical evaluation in the form of OSCE increased their stress Only 348% gave a positive reply to the question concerning whether OSCE is a useful clinical evaluation method 202 percent agreed with continuing OSCE and 613% were against it Conclusion : An increase in students stress could affect their disagreement with evaluation using OSCE Unlike students negative approach towards efficacy of holding OSCE and considering its global satisfactory results useful steps should be taken to improve OSCE and attract students satisfaction after solving pitfalls and making improvements Further studies are suggested to assess the efficacy of these actions
Mousa Alavi; Ali Reza Irajpour; Heidar Ali Abedi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , July 2007, , Pages 10-18
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Background & Objective: One of the most important goals of clinical education is ensuring from students clinical competency In such process the evaluation of clinical skills is one of the most important challenges The aim of the present study was to introduce some of the important concepts related ...
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Background & Objective: One of the most important goals of clinical education is ensuring from students clinical competency In such process the evaluation of clinical skills is one of the most important challenges The aim of the present study was to introduce some of the important concepts related to the evaluation of clinical skills Methods : Using phenomenological approach participants were selected from students and teachers of Isfahan Nursing and Midwifery School A purposive sample of 18 individuals (10 nursing students and 8 clinical teachers) who had experienced at least one course of clinical education was recruited An indepth interview was undertaken and Colaizzi method was used for data analysis The reliability and validity of the study was grounded on the four items (factual value applicability consistency and neutrality) Results : The transcribed interviews were analyzed in the seven stages of analysis Emerging codes were categorized in the following three major themes: Triangulation in evaluation the atmosphere of clinical evaluation and Evaluation syndrome Conclusion : Based upon an emphasis on the relationship among clinical evaluation environment (physical and psychosocial) the characteristics of the evaluator and the evaluated and relevant concepts the findings of the present study identified a need for the integration of all influential factors in the process of clinical evaluation Findings also suggest that clinical evaluation has to enjoy relevant models including various influential factors rather than strict structured tools
Zahra Jalili; Esmat Nouhi; Batool Ahmadpour
Volume 2, Issue 1 , July 2005, , Pages 18-24
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Background: Exact and objective evaluation of professional competency is one of the most important aspects in medical students clinical educationObjective structural clinical exam (OSCE) evaluates a large spectrum of technical and basic skills in an experimental setting Objective: To determine the ...
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Background: Exact and objective evaluation of professional competency is one of the most important aspects in medical students clinical educationObjective structural clinical exam (OSCE) evaluates a large spectrum of technical and basic skills in an experimental setting Objective: To determine the satisfaction of medical stagers and interns in Kerman University of Medical Sciences on evaluation based on OSCE Methods: All the medical students experienced the OSCE were selected as the population of this cross – sectional research To gather the data a researcher – made questionnaire with a proper validity and reliability was used Results: The findings indicated the respondents having experienced OSCE totally got 764%of the total scor of satisfsction so they were satisfied with this evaluation method The students agreed or completely agreed on 731% of the statements and 139% selected disagreed or completely disagreed Most of the students (938%) agreed on doing this method in other wards A significant relationship (P
