Assessment of Online Training of Practical Skills in 6th-Year Medical Students

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There are still a lot of uncertainty regarding efficacy of the online teaching of practical skills. Development of some technical skills in such way may be challenging for students. The goal of this study was to assess the practical skills of the 6th-year medical students, who mainly been trained online during C-19 pandemic.. Five different clinical skills had been assessed in 137 students during Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). All manipulation included in the OSCE were previously trained in the online mode, then students had the opportunity to improve their skills in a skill lab (optional and unsupervised activity). Clinical skills in the OSCE were – “basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation”, “simple interrupted skin suture”, “high O2 concentration mask placement”, “peripheral venous catheter insertion”, “due date estimation”, “laryngeal tube insertion”, “bag-mask ventilation”. Each manipulation was evaluated by max 5 points. The average points and rate of errors (%) were calculated for each manipulation.. The lowest average points and a higher rate of errors were observed in performing “simple interrupted skin suture” 4.4 (11.2%). Higher average points and a lower percentage of errors were seen performing “bag-mask ventilation” 4.7 (7%), “basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation” - 4.8 (4.8%), and “due date estimation” - 4.7 (5.3%). The lowest rate of errors was observed in such manipulations as “laryngeal tube insertion” - 4.8 (3.9%), “peripheral venous catheter insertion” - 5 (2.6%), and “high O2 concentration mask placement” - 5 (0.4%).. Online teaching could be used for development of practical skills in medical students, but for complex motoric skills additional supervised “hands-on” training should be recommended.

Period	30 Mar 2023
Event title	RSU research week 2023: University Teaching and Learning
Event type	Conference
Organiser	Rīga Stradiņš University
Location	Riga, LatviaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International