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- Charlotte Ringsted, Jane Pallisgaard, Doris Østergaard, and Albert Scherpbier.
- Copenhagen Hospital Corporation Postgraduate Medical Institute, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. charlotte.ringsted@rh.dk
- Med Educ. 2004 Dec 1;38(12):1261-9.
IntroductionThe literature on how in-training assessment (ITA) works in practice and what educational outcomes can actually be achieved is limited. One of the aims of introducing ITA is to increase trainees' clinical confidence; this relies on the assumption that assessment drives learning through its content, format and programming. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of introducing a structured ITA programme on junior doctors' clinical confidence. The programme was aimed at first year trainees in anaesthesiology.MethodsThe study involved a nationwide survey of junior doctors' self-confidence in clinical performance before (in 2001) and 2 years after (in 2003) the introduction of an ITA programme. Respondents indicated confidence on a 155-item questionnaire related to performance of clinical skills and tasks reflecting broad aspects of competence. A total of 23 of these items related to the ITA programme.ResultsThe response rate was 377/531 (71%) in 2001 and 344/521 (66%) in 2003. There were no statistically significant differences in mean levels of confidence before and 2 years after the introduction of the ITA programme - neither in aspects that were related to the programme nor in those that were unrelated to the programme.DiscussionThis study demonstrates that the introduction of a structured ITA programme did not have any significant effect on trainees' mean level of confidence on a broad range of aspects of clinical competence. The importance of timeliness and rigorousness in the application of ITA is discussed.
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