An Audit of the Effectiveness of Large Group Neurology Tutorials for Irish Undergraduate Medical Students.
The aim of this audit was to determine the effectiveness of large group tutorials for teaching neurology to medical students. Students were asked to complete a questionnaire rating their confidence on a ten point Likert scale in a number of domains in the undergraduate education guidelines from the Association of British Neurologists (ABN). We then arranged a series of interactive large group tutorials for the class and repeated the questionnaire one month after teaching. In the three core domains of neurological: history taking, examination and differential diagnosis, none of the students rated their confidence as nine or ten out of ten prior to teaching. This increased to 6% for history taking, 12 % in examination and 25% for differential diagnosis after eight weeks of tutorials. This audit demonstrates that in our centre, large group tutorials were an effective means of teaching, as measured by the ABN guidelines in undergraduate neurology.
Department of Neurology, St. Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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Kearney
Department of Neurology, St. Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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Krakar
Department of Neurology, St. Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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Drazyk
Department of Neurology, St. Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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Maloney
Department of Clinical Audit, St. Vincents University Hospital, Dublin Ireland.
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Callinan
Department of Neurology, St. Vincents University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D009462:Neurology / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching