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ArticleGMS journal for medical education2018

A pilot survey of student perceptions on the benefit of the OSCE and MCQ modalities.

Stefan Müller, Utz Settmacher, Ines Koch, Uta Dahmen

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Article in GMS journal for medical education, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Stefan MüllerJena University Hospital, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena, Germany.
Utz SettmacherJena University Hospital, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Jena, Germany.
Ines KochJena University Hospital, Department of Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Jena, Germany.
Uta DahmenJena University Hospital, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Jena, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PerceptionAdultEducational MeasurementFemaleGermanyHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedPilot ProjectsQualitative ResearchSchools, MedicalStudents, MedicalSurveys and Questionnairesmedical assessmentOSCE and MCQ modalitiesperceptionsstudents

Identifiers

PMID30539076
PMCPMC6278234

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.