| Literature DB >> 25812690 |
Jee-Young Hwang1, Hwee-Soo Jeong2.
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study was planned to investigate which medical knowledge examination score-written examination on basic medicine, individual clinical medicine, and comprehensive clinical medicine-was closely related to clinical skill score in medical students.Entities:
Keywords: Basic medicine; Clinical medicine; Clinical skill; Graduation assessment
Year: 2011 PMID: 25812690 PMCID: PMC8813517 DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2011.23.4.305
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Med Educ ISSN: 2005-727X
The Original Scores and the Correlations by T Score between Medical Knowledge Examinations and Clinical Skill Scores
| Assessments | Original score | Correlations by T score | |||||
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| Full mark | Mean±SD | CM | GA | CPX | OSCE | ||
| MK | BM | 4.5 | 3.10±0.72 | 0.794 | 0.659 | 0.425 | 0.496 |
| CM | 4.5 | 3.12±0.58 | - | 0.803 | 0.438 | 0.545 | |
| GA | 100 | 64.37±7.00 | - | 0.547 | 0.502 | ||
| CS | CPX | 100 | 59.04±5.30 | - | 0.395 | ||
| OSCE | 100 | 74.32±5.19 | - | ||||
SD: Standard deviation, CM: Clinical medicine, GA: Graduation assessment, CPX: Clinical performance examination, OSCE: Objective structured clinical examination, MK: Medical knowledge, BM: Basic medicine, CS: Clinical skill.
Pearson correlation coefficient, correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
The Correlations between Medical Knowledge Examinations and Detail Scores of CPX
| Detail | T score (Mean±SD) | p-value | Correlations by T score | |||
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| BM | CM | GA | OSCE | |||
| HT | 58.90±6.42 | <0.001 | 0.406 | 0.408 | 0.435 | 0.283 |
| PE | 45.72±8.85 | 0.170 | 0.238 | 0.338 | 0.231 | |
| ED | 54.69±9.35 | 0.281 | 0.270 | 0.358 | 0.155 | |
| PPI | 75.71±6.67 | 0.215 | 0.195 | 0.312 | 0.353 | |
p-value was calculated by one way ANOVA with post hoc analysis.
CPX: Clinical performance examination, SD: Standard deviation, BM: Basic medicine, CM: Clinical medicine, GA: Graduation assessment, OSCE: Objective structured clinical examination, HT: History taking, PE: Physical examination, ED: Patient education, PPI: Patient-physician interaction.
Pearson correlation coefficient, correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
Fig. 1.Factors Related with the Scores of Clinical Skill by Regression Analysis
Review of Previous Studies about the Correlations between Written Examination and Clinical Skill
| Study | Medical student | Assessment type | Correlation result | |||
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| Year | Grade | No. | Written exam | Skill | ||
| No correlation | ||||||
| Park et al., 2005 [ | 2003 | 3rd | 36 | 3rd year GA | OSCE | -0.13 (p>0.01) |
| Choi et al., 2009 [ | 2005 | 4th | 39 | 1st~4th year SR | CPX | 0.11 (p>0.05) |
| Hur et al., 2007 [ | 2005 | 4th | 128 | 2nd~3rd year SR | CPX | 0.14 (p>0.05) |
| Park et al., 2009 [ | 2007 | 4th | 38 | 1st, 3rd year SR | CPX | BM 0.08, CM 0.03 (p>0.05) |
| Middle correlation | ||||||
| Jung et al., 2009 [ | 2002~4 | 4th | 165 | KMLE | OSCE | 0.31~0.61 (p<0.05) |
| Park et al., 2004 [ | 2003 | 3rd | 77 | 1st~3rd year SR | OSCE | 0.30 (p<0.01) |
| Kim et al., 2004 [ | 2003 | 4th | 79 | 3rd year SR | CPX | 0.28 (p<0.05) |
| Lee et al., 2005 [ | 2004 | 3rd | 85 | IM | OSCE | 0.33~0.42 (p<0.01) |
| Park et al., 2005 [ | 2005 | 3rd | 230 | 3rd year SR | CPX | 0.32 (p<0.01) |
| High correlation | ||||||
| Han et al., 2004 [ | 2003 | 4th | 98 | 1st~4th year SR | OSCE | 0.53 (p<0.05) |
| Koh et al., 2009 [ | 2008 | 4th | 51 | 1st~4th year SR | CPX/OSCE | SR 0.58, GA 0.47 (p<0.01) |
GA: Graduation assessment, OSCE: Objective structured clinical examination, SR: School record, CPX: Clinical performance examination, BM: Basic medicine, CM: Clinical medicine, KMLE: Korean medical license examination score, IM: Internal medicine.
Including clerkship scores,
1st year basic medicine scores, 3rd year written examination and clerkship scores of only internal medicine and pediatrics,
Scores of final term examination, clerkship performance and case conference examination in internal medicine.