Effectiveness of lectures attended via interactive video conferencing versus in-person in preparing third-year internal medicine clerkship students for Clinical Practice Examinations (CPX).

Full Abstract

BACKGROUND:
The current practice in medical education is to place students at off-site locations. The effectiveness of these students attending remote lectures using interactive videoconferencing needs to be evaluated.

PURPOSE:
To determine whether lecture content covering clinical objectives is learned by medical students located at remote sites.

METHODS:
During the University of Vermont medicine clerkship, 52 medical students attended lectures both in person and via 2-way videoconferencing over a telemedicine network. The study used a crossover design, such that all students attended half of the lectures in person and half using videoconferencing. At the end of the clerkship, students were assessed via a Clinical Practice Examination (CPX), with each student completing 1 exam for material learned in person and 1 for material learned over telemedicine.

RESULTS:
Exam scores did not differ for the 2 lecture modes, with a mean score of 76% for lectures attended in person and a mean score of 78% for lectures attended via telemedicine (p = 0.66). Conclusions:
Students learn content focused on clinical learning objectives as well using videoconferencing as they do in the traditional classroom setting.

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Author information

Author/s: Bertsch, Tania F (TF); Callas, Peter W (PW); Rubin, Alan (A); Caputo, Michael P (MP); Ricci, Michael A (MA);

Affiliation: General Internal Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Teaching and learning in medicine (Teach Learn Med), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-; vol 19 (issue 1) : pp 4-8

Dates: Created 2007/03/02; Completed 2007/06/29; Revised 2007/11/15;

PMID: 17330992, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Humans
Internal Medicine - education
Teaching - methods
Vermont
Videoconferencing

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