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Trial reportJournal of educational evaluation for health professions2023

Improvement of the clinical skills of nurse anesthesia students using mini-clinical evaluation exercises in Iran: a randomized controlled study.

Ali Khalafi, Yasamin Sharbatdar, Nasrin Khajeali, Mohammad Hosein Haghighizadeh, Mahshid Vaziri

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Ali KhalafiDepartment of Anesthesiology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Yasamin SharbatdarDepartment of Anesthesiology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Nasrin KhajealiEducational Development Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Mohammad Hosein HaghighizadehDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Science, Ahvaz, Iran.
Mahshid VaziriDepartment of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Golestan Hospital, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe present study aimed to investigate the effect of a mini-clinical evaluation exercise (CEX) assessment on improving the clinical skills of nurse anesthesia students at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.

methodsThis study started on November 1, 2022, and ended on December 1, 2022. It was conducted among 50 nurse anesthesia students divided into intervention and control groups. The intervention group’s clinical skills were evaluated 4 times using the mini-CEX method. In contrast, the same skills were evaluated in the control group based on the conventional method—that is, general supervision by the instructor during the internship and a summative evaluation based on a checklist at the end of the course. The intervention group students also filled out a questionnaire to measure their satisfaction with the miniCEX method.

resultsThe mean score of the students in both the control and intervention groups increased significantly on the post-test (P<0.0001), but the improvement in the scores of the intervention group was significantly greater compared with the control group (P<0.0001). The overall mean score for satisfaction in the intervention group was 76.3 out of a maximum of 95.

conclusionThe findings of this study showed that using mini-CEX as a formative evaluation method to evaluate clinical skills had a significant effect on the improvement of nurse anesthesia students’ clinical skills, and they had a very favorable opinion about this evaluation method.

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AnesthesiaClinical CompetenceEducational MeasurementHumansIranStudentsAnesthesiaClinical competenceIranNursePersonal satisfaction

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PMID37020413
PMCPMC10209614

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