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| Title |
Assessment of a block curriculum design on medical postgraduates’ perception towards biostatistics: a cohort study
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12909-018-1232-0 |
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| Authors |
Chen Li, Ling Wang, Yuhai Zhang, Chanjuan Li, Yongyong Xu, Lei Shang, Jielai Xia |
| Abstract |
Biostatistics is a key but challenging subject in medical curricula that is usually delivered via a didactic approach in China. However, whether it is the best teaching approach to improve the learner's competency, especially for medical postgraduates is yet to be proved. Therefore, a block curriculum design was initially developed to provide selective education to the postgraduates towards the professional career of their interest. A questionnaire was designed to assess the students' perceptions toward biostatistics as these affective factors might impact the learning process. Thus, the present study aimed to detect whether the new block curriculum design could promote the students' positive perceptions and further improve the course achievement. This cohort study investigated and assessed the perceptions toward biostatistics of the first-year postgraduates undergoing traditional teaching and block teaching, respectively. Structural equation modeling was applied to explore the association between perception and course achievement in the block teaching group. With a response rate of 97.84 and 96.67% from the two cohorts respectively, 499 block teaching postgraduates had more positive perceptions as compared to 465 traditionally teaching postgraduates with Likert 5-point agreement response mean of 3.50 vs. 3.31 for course value, 3.66 vs. 2.97 for course comment, and 4.29 vs. 4.10 for expectation. Moreover, block teaching students presented superior confidence about academic statistical knowledge, and therefore, 77.96% of them approved of the new teaching approach. Age, specialty, research experience, logical thinking capacity, mathematical basics, and computer basics might influence the postgraduates' self-assessment ability (all P < 0.05). Structural equation modeling confirmed a positive correlation between perceptions and the course achievements with a reasonable fit. The block curriculum design in the biostatistics course improved the postgraduates' positive perception and may have had a positive role in improving postgraduates' achievement in learning biostatistics. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Spain | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 85 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 13% |
| Researcher | 9 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 21% |
| Unknown | 28 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 9% |
| Mathematics | 6 | 7% |
| Psychology | 3 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 8 | 9% |
| Unknown | 37 | 44% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 September 2018.
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#15,010,626
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#2,182
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#197,261
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#56
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