title: First aid and basic life support training for first year medical students.
abstract: We developed 24 and 12-h programs for first aid and basic life support (FA-BLS) training for first-year medical students and evaluated the opinions of both the trainers and trainees on the effectiveness of the programs. The trainees were the first-year students of academic years 2000-2001 (316 students) and 2001-2002 (366 students). The evaluations of the participants were collected from short questionnaires created specifically for the study. For the 24-h training program, most of the students stated that FA-BLS sessions met their expectations (85.9%) and they were satisfied with the training (91.1%). Of the participants, 75.6% stated that they could apply FA confidently in real situations simulating the topics they learned in the FA-BLS sessions. For the 12-h training program, 84.4% of the students felt themselves competent in FA-BLS applications. The trainers considered both of the programs as effective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. hakana@hacettepe.edu.tr
authors.forename: Kerim Hakan
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Altintaş
authors.forename: Ali Naci
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: Dilek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aslan
authors.forename: Sevkat Bahar
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Ozvariş
authors.forename: Nazmi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bilir
mesh_terms: D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005392:First Aid; D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013337:Students, Medical