The experience of the University Research Laboratory for Medical Training
Electronic voting used to evaluate medical training and lab work
The experience of Prof. Noureddine Bouiadjra
Dean of the Faculty of Medecine of Oran, Algeria
The University Research Laboratory for Medical Training that I direct proposes, as one of its research projects, to test a new method for evaluating the training courses offered mainstream medical students. Four research teams are taking part in this experiment: two in the first cycle of anatomy and histology, and two in the second cycle of surgical semiology and hepato-gastro-enterology.
The work documents and patient files are daily collated, interpreted, processed and archived in a computerized database via scanner and CD burner. For each item and for each dossier, the chronology of the investigations, care and therapeutic outcome are accompanied by a series of questions corresponding to each phase, in such a way as to develop evaluations during the first cycle and clinical case tests during the second cycle.
During evaluations, given the overabundance of our students, interview-style exams are physically impossible to organize. We propose carrying out the double projection via a video projector, simultaneously displaying the experimental or clinical references and their corresponding questions. The students use their electronic voting keypads to answer the questions. Answer response time and exactness are both taken into consideration for scoring. The students are divided into groups of thirty. A three-part evaluation is then carried out: one among the students to determine their assessment, one for docimological purposes, and one among the instructors.
Tags : electronic voting, electronic voting keypads, interactive voting systems, Medical Training, student response system
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