Table 1.
Detailed description of the survey instrument
| Faculty | Graduating medical students | Junior doctors | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section 1 | Question | How much essential is for student at the end of medical school to perform the following abilities in an autonomous and automatic manner? | How able you are in performing the following abilities in an autonomous and automatic manner? | After graduation, how much did you feel able to perform the following abilities in an autonomous and automatic manner without additional training? |
| Linear numeric scale | From 1, absolutely not essential to 9, absolutely essential | From 1, absolutely not autonomous to 9, absolutely autonomous | From 1, absolutely not able to 9, absolutely able | |
| Aim | To estimate level of consensus about the importance over the selected procedural skills | To estimate the student actual level of mastery of the selected technical skills | To assess procedural skill needs in the clinical practice and limit bias of student sample selection | |
| (essentialness) | (autonomy) | (autonomy) | ||
| Section 2 | Question | Would it be useful to teach the following abilities with the use of simulation before the clinical rotations? | Would it be useful to learn the following abilities with the use of simulation before the clinical rotations? | Would it be useful to teach the following abilities with the use of simulation? |
| Linear numeric scale | From 1, absolutely useless to 9, absolutely useful | From 1, absolutely useless to 9, absolutely useful | From 1, absolutely useless to 9, absolutely useful | |
| Aim | To estimate the benefit of teaching those procedural skills before the clinical rotation, possibly by the use of simulation (utility) | |||
| Section 3 | Question | Would you like to list any additional procedures that you feel to be important but were omitted from the initial list? | Would you like to list any additional procedures that you feel to be important but were omitted from the initial list? | Would you like to list any additional procedures that you feel to be important but were omitted from the initial list? |
| Aim | To include any additional procedures that were felt to be important but omitted from the initial list. | |||