Simulation training across medical and surgical scenarios yields significantly higher OSCE scores than didactic lectures across two year groups¶
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q2 i? Across two year groups, the mean score for 16 OSCE stations was significantly better for students who had undergone simulation training than for the didactic lecture group. → McInerney Niall 2022
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McInerney Niall 2022¶
McInerney Niall, Nally D., Khan M.F., Heneghan H., Cahill R.A. (2022). Performance effects of simulation training for medical students – a systematic review. GMS Journal for Medical Education. https://www.egms.de/en/journals/zma/2022-39/zma001572.shtml
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Narrative review attributing this to Zhang et al.'s study in which students were pre-selected into simulation or didactic lecture groups by facility variants across clinical sites, simulating both medical and surgical scenarios. The review reports the printed means and p-values for both year groups.
"Across two year groups, the mean score for 16 OSCE stations was significantly better in those who had undergone simulation training. The mean score in 2013 for the simulation was 80.95±0.61 versus 69.91±1.24 for the didactic lecture group (p=0.0114), and 86.12±0.56 versus 73.58±1.34 in 2014 (p=0.006)."
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Related Claims¶
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