Department of Medical Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan.
College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
BMC Med Educ. 2023 Aug 11;23(1):571. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04073-y.
A high-quality medical humanities (MH) education program is essential to developing a successful medical practitioner and can influence clinical performance. It is also vital to improve the evaluation of MH education to restore harmonious mutual relationships in medical care. However, studies have yet to discuss the correlation between the learning quality and quantity of medical humanities curriculums (MHC) and medical students' scores of clinical curriculums and clinical performance. The study aimed to assess the correlation between the learning quality and quantity of MHC and medical students' performance.
We conducted a retrospective cohort study by analyzing a dataset of students' learning records. After excluding students with missing demographic information (n = 1) and overseas Chinese students (n = 15), the study included six- and seven-year program medical school students (n = 354) at National Yang-Ming University who were admitted between 2012 and 2014. The correlation between learning quality and quantity in MHC and students' following performance was evaluated by multivariable-adjusted regression analyses.
After adjusting for potential confounders (gender, residential area, age at enrollment, type of administration, and school program), the number of MHC with good learning outcomes was significantly correlated with clinical curriculum scores (p < 0.05), clerkship performance (p < 0.001), and weighted average mark (p < 0.001).
Our study found a correlation between MHC with good learning outcomes and medical students' following performance. A future study of improving the quality of MH education is warranted.
高质量的医学人文学（MH）教育对于培养成功的医生至关重要，能够影响临床表现。改善对 MH 教育的评估对于恢复医疗保健中的和谐相互关系也至关重要。然而，目前还没有研究探讨医学人文学课程（MHC）的学习质量和数量与医学生临床课程成绩和临床表现之间的相关性。本研究旨在评估 MHC 的学习质量和数量与医学生表现之间的相关性。
我们通过分析学生学习记录的数据集进行了回顾性队列研究。排除了缺失人口统计学信息的学生（n=1）和华裔学生（n=15）后，该研究纳入了 2012 年至 2014 年期间在阳明大学就读的六年制和七年制医学院学生（n=354）。通过多变量调整回归分析评估了 MHC 学习质量和数量与学生后续表现之间的相关性。
在调整了潜在混杂因素（性别、居住地区、入学年龄、管理类型和学校项目）后，具有良好学习成绩的 MHC 数量与临床课程成绩（p<0.05）、实习表现（p<0.001）和加权平均成绩（p<0.001）显著相关。
我们的研究发现具有良好学习成绩的 MHC 与医学生的后续表现之间存在相关性。需要进一步研究提高 MH 教育的质量。
