Newly-graduated physicians' perceived stress before specialization exam

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Learning styles and learning approaches: How closely are they associated with each other and do they change during medical education?

WOS: 000430070400003Objectives: This study aims to determine medical students' learning styles and approaches and to evaluate the relationship between them, as well as observe whether any changes occur in these during the course of their education. Methods and Materials: This research was carried out on students who were enrolled in 2008-2009 and was conducted in their first, second and fourth years. The study group consisted of students who had fully completed the scales of measurement used for this research in all years. Learning styles and approaches were determined for each period. Results: An increase in the convergent and divergent styles and a decrease in the assimilator style, determined over the years were not statistically significant. The decline in the deep learning approach scores was important. Evaluating the relationship between the learning styles and approaches, we found that the deep learning approach scores with the divergent style were lower in the first two years; however, no relationship was observed in the fourth year. Conclusions: The learning style follow-up study indicates a trend among students who will try to understand the whole by giving importance to details, to focus on problem solving, and to move away from traditional learning. The decrease in deep learning approaches may be linked to the nature of assignments and testing systems

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Fresno Test for Turkish language

Cakmakkaya, Ozlem S./0000-0002-3945-1875WOS:000630020100021PubMed: 33417622Objective National and international medical organizations and boards have recognized the importance of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and emphasized that EBM training should be included in medical education programs. Although some Turkish medical schools have developed and implemented EBM training programs, no validated Turkish language assessment tool has been available to compare the effectiveness of these training programs to national or international standards. The aim of this study is to cross-culturally adapt the Fresno Test, which is a validated English language tool utilized worldwide in the assessment of EBM training. Methods This study is a cross-sectional validation study, which was performed in two stages: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Fresno Test into Turkish; and evaluation of the psychometric properties, validity, reliability and responsiveness, of the Turkish version of the Fresno Test. Results The content validity of the test was evaluated by experienced physicians in the field of Evidence-Based Medicine, and the content validity index was 1.00. The Cronbach a coefficient was 0.78 on the post-test results. The intraclass correlation (ICC) coefficient and the kappa analysis were calculated to evaluate inter-rater reliability. The ICC coefficients ranged from 0.66 to 0.97 for pre- and post-test results. The Kappa coefficients were 1.00 for all pre-test and post-test questions except one post-test question which was 0.89. The change score of the Fresno Test was used to evaluate responsiveness. The students' score of the Turkish Fresno Test was 49.9 +/- 18.2 pre-training and 118.9 +/- 26.3 post-training with a change of 69 points (95% CI, 63.9-74.2). The Cohen's effect size was 3.04 (95% CI, 2.6-3.5) indicating a very large change in scores. Conclusions The Turkish adapted Fresno Test used to evaluate students' success and program effectiveness is a valid and reliable measurement tool. It will be of great benefit for the comparison of the effectiveness of Turkish education programs nationally and cross-culturally

Health anxiety and cyberchondria among Ege University health science students

WOS: 000452938200028PubMed ID: 30290320It is common among health science students to incorrectly believe that they have contracted certain diseases they have recently studied. This can also be seen in the form of health anxiety and investigating health-related information via the internet. Health anxiety, cyberchondria and affecting factors are determined among health science students. The study was conducted at the faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing in 2016-2017 with the participation of 874 students. The data were gathered using a questionnaire as well as health anxiety and cyberchondria severity scales. In the presence of a health problem, 14.2% of students seek health information via the intemet 83.7% use mobile phone to access the intemet, 1/4 of students conduct health scanning once a week or more. To 65.4%, intemet information is correct at medium and above level. No statistically significant difference was found with respect to students' gender, high school, places they lived before, parents' education and scales' scores. The cyberchondria scores of students with health problems are higher in the whole scale and in "distress and mistrust of medical professional" subscales. As the frequency of scanning on the intemet increases, the scores of cyberchondria also increase significantly. Medical students had significantly higher scores in "distress, excessiveness and reassurance" subscales. Male students' "mistrust of medical professional and compulsion" subscales scores were also higher. It was determined that the presence of the health problem was effective on the cyberchondria. Identification of somatoform problems like health anxiety and cyberchondria may help to regulate the education program.Ege University Scientific Research Project FundEge University [2017-TIP-008]This work was supported by the Ege University Scientific Research Project Fund (Project 2017-TIP-008)