Year 1 medical students complete more WBA assessments in secondary care placements, especially when secondary care is the first placement block¶
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q2 i? Across nearly all placement blocks and years, more assessments were completed in secondary care than primary care, particularly when secondary care came first and early in placements. → Alicja Piotrkowicz 2021
Evidence¶
Alicja Piotrkowicz 2021¶
Alicja Piotrkowicz, Kaiwen Wang, Jennifer Hallam, Vania Dimitrova. (2021). Data-driven Exploration of Engagement with Workplace-based Assessment in the Clinical Skills Domain. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 31:1022–1052. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00264-0
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Observational analysis of weekly aggregated WBA counts from the Clinical Skill Passport app for three Year 1 cohorts (2016/17–2018/19), summarised as boxplots in Fig. 1 by cohort (P1, P2, S1, S2). The analysis found "more assessments completed in secondary care" in nearly all blocks. No effect size is printed.
"In nearly all blocks across all years there are more assessments completed in secondary care, especially when secondary care is the first placement block, and early in the placement more generally."
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Related Claims¶
- Assessor role diversity is greater in secondary care placements and the most common assessor type shifted from nurse (2016/17) to clinical educator (2017/18 and 2018/19) — related
- Consultation skills were the most frequently chosen WBA clinical skills across all three Year 1 cohorts, followed by diagnostic procedures — related
- Student reflections share common frequent words across placements but differ between primary and secondary care and across year groups — related
- Process mining of WBA logs shows students typically start with Handwashing, then Pulse and History, with frequent looping back to basic clinical skills — related
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Year 1 medical students complete more WBA assessments in secondary care placements, especially when secondary care is the first placement block |
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Year 1 medical students complete more WBA assessments in secondary care placements, especially when secondary care is the first placement block |
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