Aamodt Carla B, Virtue David W, Dobbie Alison E
Department of General and Geriatric Medicine, University of Kansas.
Fam Med. 2006 May;38(5):326-9.
Teaching physical examination skills effectively, consistently, and cost-effectively is challenging. Faculty time is the most expensive resource. One solution is to train medical students using lay physical examination teaching associates. In this study, we investigated the feasibility, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of training medical students using teaching associates trained by a lay expert instead of a clinician.
We used teaching associates to instruct students about techniques of physical examination. We measured students' satisfaction with this teaching approach. We also monitored the financial cost of this approach compared to the previously used approach in which faculty physicians taught physical examination skills.
Our program proved practical to accomplish and acceptable to students. Students rated the program highly, and we saved approximately $9,100, compared with our previous faculty-intensive teaching program.
We believe that our program is popular with students, cost-effective, and generalizable to other institutions.
有效、持续且经济高效地教授体格检查技能具有挑战性。教师时间是最昂贵的资源。一种解决方案是使用非专业体格检查教学助手来培训医学生。在本研究中，我们调查了使用由非专业专家而非临床医生培训的教学助手来培训医学生的可行性、可接受性和成本效益。
我们使用教学助手向学生讲授体格检查技术。我们测量了学生对这种教学方法的满意度。我们还监测了与之前由教师医生教授体格检查技能的方法相比，这种方法的财务成本。
我们的项目证明是切实可行且学生可接受的。学生对该项目评价很高，与我们之前以教师为主的教学项目相比，我们节省了约9100美元。
我们认为我们的项目受学生欢迎、具有成本效益，并且可推广到其他机构。
