The impact of a hybrid online and classroom-based course on palliative care competencies of family medicine residents

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 929-937

  Pereira, Jose ^a,b,f   Palacios, M ^c   Collin, T ^c   Wedel, R ^d,e   Galloway, L ^b   Murray, A ^b   Violato, C ^b   Lockyer, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e Calgary Health Region   (Canada)

^f University of Ottawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Internet; OSCE; Palliative; Web learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COURSE CONTENT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EFFECT SIZE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; INTERNET; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RESIDENT;

CANADA; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 57149132113     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308094561     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. MacLeod RD, James CR,. Improving the effectiveness of palliative care education. Palliat Med 1997; 11: 375-380.
2. Epstein RM,. Assessment in medical education. N Engl J Med 2007; 356: 387-396.
3. Kirkpatrick D,. Great ideas revisited. Techniques for evaluating training programs. Revisiting Kirkpatrick's four-level model. Train Dev 1996; 50: 54-59.
4. Miller GE,. The assessment of clinical skills/competence/performance. Acad Med 1990; 65 (Suppl.): S63-S67.
5. Rethans JJ, Sturmans F, Drop R, Van der Vleuten C, Hobus P,. Does competence of general practitioners predict their performance? Comparison between examination setting and actual practice. BMJ 1991; 303: 1377-1380.
6. Verhoeven BH, Hamers JGHC, Scherpbier AJJA, Hoogenboom RJI, van der Vleuten CPM,. The effect on reliability of adding a separate written assessment component to an objective structured clinical examination. Med Educ 2000; 34: 525-529.
7. Brazeau C, Boyd L, Crosson J, Changing an existing OSCE to a teaching tool: The making of a teaching OSCE. Acad Med 2002; 77: 932.
8. Pereira JL,. The development and psychometric assessment of an instrument to assess the palliative care competencies. [Masters of Science in Medical Education Degree Thesis]. Ottawa, ON: Library and Archives Canada; 2007. ISBN:978049192566.
9. Mason S, Ellershaw J,. Assessing undergraduate palliative care education: Validity and reliability of two scales examining perceived efficacy and outcome expectancies in palliative care. Med Educ 2004; 38: 1103-1110.
10. Lester D, Abdel-Khalek A,. The Collet-Lester fear of death scale: A correction. Death Stud 2003; 27: 81-85.
11. Frommelt KH,. Attitudes toward care of the terminally ill: An educational intervention. Am J Hosp Palliat Care 2003; 20: 13-22.
12. Jubelirer SJ, Welch C, Babar Z, Emmett M,. Competencies and concerns in end-of-life care for medical students and residents. W V Med J 2001; 97: 118-121.
13. Lloyd-Williams M, Dogra N,. Caring for dying patients: What are the attitudes of medical students. Support Care Cancer 2003; 11: 696-699.
14. Henerson ME, Morris LL, Fitz-Gibbon CT,. How to measure attitudes. Newbury Park, California: SAGE Publications; 1987.
15. http://www.nbme.org/publications/item-writing-manual.html
16. Harden RM,. Twelve tips for organizing an objective structure clinical examination (OSCE). Med Teach 1990; 12: 259-265.
17. Bloom C,. Taxonomy of educational goals: Handbook 1: cognitive domain. New York: David Mackay; 1971.
18. Regehr G, MacRae H, Reznick RK, Szalay D,. Comparing the psychometric properties of checklists and global rating scales for assessing performance on an OSCE-format examination. Acad Med 1998; 73: 993-997.
19. Cohen J,. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Press; 1988.
20. Fan X,. Statistical significance and effect size in education research: two sides of a coin. J Educ Res 2001; 94: 275-282.
21. Chumley-Jones HS, Dobbie A, Alford CL,. Web-based learning: Sound educational method or hype? A review of the evaluation literature. Acad Med 2002; 77: S86-S93.
22. Porter-Williamson K, von Gunten CF, Garman K, Herbst L, Bluestein HG, Evans W,. Improving knowledge in palliative medicine with a required hospice rotation for third-year medical students. Acad Med 2004; 79: 777-782.
23. Ratanawongsa N, Teherani A, Hauer KE,. Third-year medical students' experiences with dying patients during the internal medicine clerkship: a qualitative study of the informal curriculum. Acad Med 2005; 80: 641-647.
24. Oppenheim AN,. Questionnaire design, interviewing and attitude measurement. 2nd ed. London: Pinter Publications; 1992.
25. Modjarrad K,. Medicine and spirituality. JAMA 2004; 291: 2880.
26. Murdock JE, Neafsey PJ,. Self-efficacy measurements: An approach for predicting practice outcomes in continuing education. J Contin Educ Nurs 1995; 26: 158-165.
27. Ford-Gilboe M, Laschinger HKS, Laforet-Fliesser F, Ward-Griffin C, Foran S,. The effect of a clinical practicum on undergraduate nursing student's self-efficacy for community-based family nursing practice. J Nurs Educ 1997; 36: 212-219.
28. Mattheos N, Nattestad A, Falk-Nilsson E, Attstro R,. The interactive examination: Assessing students' self-assessment ability. Med Educ 2004; 38: 378-389.
29. Pereira J, Murzyn T,. Integrating the "new" with the "traditional": An innovative educational model. J Palliat Med 2001; 4: 31-38.
30. Newble D,. Techniques for measuring clinical competence: Objective structured clinical examinations. Med Educ 2004; 38: 199-203.