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Analysis of psychometric properties of the modified SETQ tool in undergraduate medical education

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Title
Analysis of psychometric properties of the modified SETQ tool in undergraduate medical education
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BMC Medical Education, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12909-017-0893-4
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Ahmed Al Ansari, Kathryn Strachan, Sumaya Hashim, Sameer Otoom

Abstract

Effective clinical teaching is crucially important for the future of patient care. Robust clinical training therefore is essential to produce physicians capable of delivering high quality health care. Tools used to evaluate medical faculty teaching qualities should be reliable and valid. This study investigates the psychometric properties of modification of the System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SETQ) instrument in the clinical years of undergraduate medical education. This cross-sectional multicenter study was conducted in four teaching hospitals in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Two-hundred ninety-eight medical students were invited to evaluate 105 clinical teachers using the SETQ instrument between January 2015 and March 2015. Questionnaire feasibility was analyzed using average time required to complete the form and the number of raters required to produce reliable results. Instrument reliability (stability) was assessed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the total scale and for each sub-scale (factor). To provide evidence of construct validity, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted to identify which items on the survey belonged together, which were then grouped as factors. One-hundred twenty-five medical students completed 1161 evaluations of 105 clinical teachers. The response rates were 42% for student evaluations and 57% for clinical teacher self-evaluations. The factor analysis showed that the questionnaire was composed of six factors, explaining 76.7% of the total variance. Cronbach's alpha was 0.94 or higher for the six factors in the student survey; for the clinical teacher survey, Cronbach's alpha was 0.88. In both instruments, the item-total correlation was above 0.40 for all items within their respective scales. Our modified SETQ questionnaire was found to be both reliable and valid, and was implemented successfully across various departments and specialties in different hospitals in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 18%
Student > Master 7 14%
Researcher 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Librarian 2 4%
Other 13 27%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 43%
Psychology 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 4%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 10 20%
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