Medical students' perception of simulation-based assessment in emergency and paediatric medicine: a focus group study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although simulation-based assessment (SBA) is being implemented in numerous medical education systems, it is still rarely used for undergraduate medical students in France. Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) will be integrated into the national medical curriculum in 2021. In 2016 and 2017, we created a mannequin SBA to validate medical students' technical and psychometric skills during their emergency medicine and paediatric placements. The aim of our study was to determine medical students' perceptions of SBA.

Methods

We followed the grounded theory framework to conduct a qualitative study. A total of 215 students participated in either a paediatric or an emergency medicine simulation-based course with a final assessment. Among the 215 participant

SUBMITTER: Philippon AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8605506 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature