Table 2.
How well the Preparation for House Officer course prepared medical students for FY1
| Questions | strongly disagree 1 |
disagree 2 |
don't know 3 |
agree 4 |
strongly agree 5 |
mean | SD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The taught part of the course prepared me well for my first FY1 job [n = 74] | 11% [8] |
45% [33] |
14% [10] |
28% [21] |
3% [2] |
2.7 | 1.09 |
| The taught part of the course did not prepare me well for working as an F1 [n = 72] | 1% [1] |
18% [14] |
8% [6] |
54% [40] |
15% [11] |
3.6 | 1.01 |
| During my first job I drew on the knowledge gained during the taught course [n = 74] | 18% [13] |
45% [33] |
23% [17] |
14% [10] |
1% [1] |
2.4 | .97 |
| The taught part of the course gave me better preparation than the shadowing part [n = 74] | 59% [44] |
34% [25] |
5% [4] |
1% [1] |
0%[ 0] |
1.5 | .67 |
| The shadowing part of the course was more useful than the taught part [n = 74] | 1% [1] |
1% [1] |
3% [2] |
39% [29] |
55% [41] |
4.5 | .74 |
| A lot of what we did in the taught part should have been done during shadowing [n = 74] | 3% [2] |
12% [9] |
22% [16] |
47% [35] |
16% [12] |
3.6 | .99 |