Table 2. Overall Scores of Medical Students’ Adaptability and Proactivity in the 6-week OB/GYN Clerkship .
| Category | Checklist item | First 3 weeks | Second 3 weeks | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physically and environmental adaptability | Locate patient | 3.14 | 3.69 | 0.55 |
| Movement | 3.25 | 3.63 | 0.38 | |
| Interpersonal adaptability | Self-introduction | 3.12 | 3.63 | 0.51 |
| Call names | 3.21 | 3.23 | 0.02 | |
| Cultural adaptability | Team structure | 3.81 | 3.75 | -0.06 |
| Setting | 2.92 | 3.39 | 0.47 | |
| Dealing with uncertain work situations | Reaction | 2.98 | 3.52 | 0.54 |
| Learning work tasks, technologies, and procedures | Understand task | 3.13 | 3.32 | 0.19 |
| Discuss task | 2.69 | 3.18 | 0.49 | |
| Perform task | 2.82 | 3.15 | 0.33 | |
| Average | 3.04 | 3.45 | 0.41* | |
Note: During the 6-week OB/GYN clerkship, 3 consecutive weeks usually focus on OB context and 3 consecutive weeks on GYN context. Overall scores calculated over 2 consecutive 6 week clerkships for students in both Group 1 and Group 2. *p value = 0.014 calculated by Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test.