title: Correlation of residents' knowledge and clinical performance with their teaching skill and attitude.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether teaching skill is associated with knowledge or clinical performance in Obstetrics and Gynecology residents, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thailand
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire evaluating residents' teaching skills was completed by medical students using a global rating scale. The results were compared with the residents' score from in-training examination and clinical performance score from the medical staff Correlation between teaching skill and knowledge, teaching skill, and performance was done by using bivariate correlation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-nine medical-students were enrolled to evaluate residents' teaching skills. Twenty-eight Obstetrics and Gynecology residents were evaluated in the present study. The correlation between teaching skill and knowledge was not significant (r = 0.066; p = 0.25). The correlation between teaching skill and clinical performance was not significant (r = 0.172; p = 0.28). However clinical performance and knowledge showed a significant correlation (r = 0.558; p = 0.002).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical performance and knowledge had no correlation with teaching skill in Obstetrics and Gynecology residents. However results of the present study show that clinical performance and knowledge had positive correlation. Training courses are recommended to increase residents' abilities in the range of teaching skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. ruangsakl@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ruangsak
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lertkhachonsuk
authors.forename: Danai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wangsaturaka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching; D055815:Young Adult