Correlation between early clinical exposure environment, attitudes toward basic medicine, and medical students' basic science learning performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early clinical exposure (ECE) is viewed as a way to provide contexts of basic science and highlight its relevance to medical practice. However, very few studies have specifically looked into how the ECE experience contributes to students' academic performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether ECE experiences (external cause) or students' learning attitudes (internal cause) more closely correlated with medical students' academic performance.

Methods

Subjects who participated in the study comprised 109 s-year students at Taipei Medical University. Fifty of the 109 study participants were enrolled in an elective ECE program. The dependent variable in this study was the test score of a systems-based basic sciences (SBBS) course. Independent variabl

SUBMITTER: Tang KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6547489 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature