Reflection and self-efficacy for clinical skills.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Clinical skills are fundamental to medical school curriculums and typically introduced within the preclinical years. In their experiential learning, students' self-efficacy, or the belief in their ability to succeed, is an important factor in influencing clinical skill mastery. Reflection is thought to affect self-efficacy; however, its exact impacts remain largely unexplored within published literature. This mixed methods study investigated whether preclinical students' engagement with reflection affected self-efficacy for clinical skills.

Methods

Two hundred seventy-three of the 289 preclinical medical students who were invited to participate responded to this 2022 study. We used validated questionnaires to measure engagement with reflection and perceived self

SUBMITTER: Yong JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11663727 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature