Table 2.
Participants’ responses to knowledge pretest and posttest
| Items * | Participants’ responses # |
Students’ Medical Ethics Rounds topics
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical errors (%) | Informed consent (%) | Medical education (%) | Conflict of interest (%) | End-of-life issues (%) | Total of rounds (%) | ||
| Pretest | False | 45.45 | 32.2 | 42.22 | 58.3 | 65.56 | 45.45 |
| True | 54.55 | 67.8 | 57.78 | 41.7 | 34.44 | 54.55 | |
| Posttest | False | 21.05 | 25.3 | 32.5 | 53.98 | 38.26 | 21.05 |
| True | 78.95 | 74.7 | 62.5 | 46.02 | 61.74 | 78.95 | |
| Difference | P-value | 0.0017 | 0.1446 | 0.3129 | 0.3358 | 0.0029 | < 0.00001 |
*
These items enquire into the participants’ knowledge regarding the topic of each SMER. English translations of them are provided in supplementary material.
#
The participants’ responses were, first, obtained using a 5-point Likert scale, then, transformed to this binomial scale for convenience. In addition, we summed the total responses (true/false) of all knowledge questions.