Evaluation of the impact of an online introductory paediatric physical examination skills course on students' OSCE performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Videos demonstrating clinical skills are considered powerful educational tools. However, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of comprehensive multimedia skills courses on knowledge and skills acquisition. We used cognitive load theory to develop an online course to introduce medical students to core paediatric physical examination concepts and skills, within a resource-constrained learning environment with high student-to-clinical teacher ratios. This study evaluated the impact and acceptance of the online course.

Methods

We used an observational quasi-experimental analysis for the impact evaluation. The main outcome was students' marks for the paediatrics station in the final paper-based observed structured clinical examination (OSCE). We measured the

SUBMITTER: George A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12628971 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature