Development of the clinical learning evaluation questionnaire for undergraduate clinical education: factor structure, validity, and reliability study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Teaching and learning of clinical skills for undergraduate medical students usually takes place during the clinical clerkship. Therefore, it is of vital importance to ensure the effectiveness of the rotations within this clerkship. The aims of this study were to develop an instrument that measures the effectiveness of the clinical learning environment, to determine its factor structure, and to find first evidence for the reliability and validity of the total scale and the different factors.

Methods

The Clinical Learning Evaluation Questionnaire (CLEQ) is an instrument, consisting of 40 items, which have been developed after consideration of the results of a qualitative study that investigated the important factors influencing clinical learning, both from the persp

SUBMITTER: AlHaqwi AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3944808 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature