Teaching cervical dilation measurement to family medicine residents.
OBJECTIVE
Cervical dilation measurement is difficult to teach. This pilot study's objective was to determine if residents participating in an innovative workshop improved their cervical measurement accuracy when using soft cervical models in the classroom.


METHODS
Resident physicians measured cervical models before and after the workshop. We compared pre-workshop and post-workshop coefficients of variation using a standard t test.


CONCLUSIONS
Residents reduced their measurement error from 38.2% to 15.6%.
Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University, USA. knutson.1@osu.edu
Doug
D
Knutson
Milisa
M
Rizer
D002983:Clinical Competence; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007747:Labor Stage, First / Q000502:physiology*; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011247:Pregnancy; D013337:Students, Medical