Medical certificate education: controlled study between lectures and flipped classroom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Finnish permanent residents are covered by social security insurance administered by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. The procedure of insurance is initiated with medical certificate written by the treating doctor. Thus, the doctor must have certificate writing skills accompanied with the knowledge of the content and goals for insurance. Quality certificates are important part of doctors' professional skills worldwide and most effective teaching methods for learning these should be investigated.

Methods

Medical certificate data were collected from two independent courses of fourth-year student taught in autumn 2015 (N = 141) and 2016 (N = 142) in the medical faculty of the University of Eastern Finland. A random sample of 40 students per course was dra

SUBMITTER: Tusa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6201511 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature