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Case-based exercises fail to improve medical students' information management skills: a controlled trial

Heidi Chumley
Alison Dobbie
John Delzell
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BACKGROUND:Tomorrow's physicians must learn to access, retrieve, integrate and apply current information into ambulatory patient encounters, yet few medical schools teach 'real time' information management.METHODS:We compared two groups of clerkship students' information management skills using a standardized patient case. The intervention group participated in case-based discussions including exercises that required them to manage new information. The control group completed the same case discussions without information management exercises.RESULTS:After five weeks, there was no significant difference between the control and intervention groups' scores on the standardized patient case. However, third rotation students significantly outperformed first rotation students.CONCLUSION:Case-based exercises to teach information management failed to improve students' performance on a standardized patient case. Increased number of clinical rotations was associated with improved performance.
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2007-12-19
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Heidi Chumley;Alison Dobbie;John Delzell: Case-based exercises fail to improve medical students' information management skills: a controlled trial. BMC Med Educ 2006, 6(1):14.
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