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. 2019 Oct 18:3:24.
doi: 10.22454/PRiMER.2019.185529. eCollection 2019.

Impact of a Hands-on Knee Exam Workshop on Medical Student Clinical Examination Scores

Mohammed Miniato  1 , Paul Schaefer  2 , David Weldy  3
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Impact of a Hands-on Knee Exam Workshop on Medical Student Clinical Examination Scores

Mohammed Miniato et al. PRiMER. .

Abstract

Introduction: The goal of this research project was to retrospectively evaluate the effect of a voluntary hands-on musculoskeletal knee exam workshop, presented to medical students in the family medicine rotation at the University of Toledo, on the outcomes of a required objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).

Methods: We analyzed student OSCE scores for both knee and back exams before (July 2011 to June 2012) and after (August 2013 to June 2015) the workshop was offered. The analysis was based on those who attended the voluntary knee exam workshop and those who did not. We compared scores between the two groups of students using two-tailed t testing and χ 2 testing, and assessed the correlation of attending the workshop to passing the knee OSCE.

Results: One hundred eighty-seven students attended the workshop and 279 did not. During the period when the workshop was offered, the overall mean score on the knee OSCE was 59.5% for the 187 who attended the workshop and 35.9% for the 116 who did not, which was significantly different (P<.001). A χ2 test with α=0.05 showed that attending the workshop correlated with completing at least 70% of maneuvers acceptably during the knee OSCE (P<.001).

Conclusions: Our study yielded positive outcomes on OSCE scores, comparable to other studies that investigated the effect of similar teaching techniques. Comparison of the scores of those who attended the knee workshop on the simpler back exam OSCE, in which no workshop was offered, demonstrated the efficacy of the workshop.

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Comparison of Mean OSCE Scores on Performance of Knee Exam Maneuvers Based on Workshop Attendance, 2013–2015
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