Effects of reflection and immediate feedback to improve clinical reasoning of medical students in the assessment of dermatologic conditions: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are few studies that directly compared different interventions to improve medical students' clinical reasoning for dermatologic conditions.

Objective

To investigate the effectiveness of adding practice with reflection and immediate feedback on traditional dermatology electives in improving medical students' ability in evaluating skin lesions.

Methods

The participants were fourth-year medical students of Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea, who were enrolled to take a 2-week dermatology elective course (n = 87). Students were assigned to one of the three educational interventions: 2-h training involving 10 written clinical cases (experimental); 1-h lecture and 1-h outpatient clinic (lecture); and 2-h outpatient clinic (no intervention)

SUBMITTER: Choi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7206810 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature