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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Am Surg. 2020 Dec 29;87(12):1946–1952. doi: 10.1177/0003134820983194

Table 2.

Comparison of In-Person and Electronic Sessions, Stratified by Type of Session(Faculty or Resident-Led). In Addition, All In-Person and All Electronic Clerkship Feedback was Included.

Half in-person, half-electronic group
Combined
(n = 19)
In-person sessions
(n = 19
Electronic sessions
(n = 19)
All in-person
(n = 69)
All electronic
(n = 14)
Mean ± SD Mean ± SD Mean ± SD P Mean ± SD Mean ± SD
Faculty-led lectures
 Effectiveness to prepare for shelf exam 6.4 ± 1.8 6.2 ± 1.7 6.7 ± 1.9 .462 6.0 ± 2.1 6.9 ± 2.4
 Effectiveness to prepare for oral exam 6.6 ± 1.8 6.4 ± 1.5 6.8 ± 2.0 .581 6.2 ± 2.2 6.9 ± 3.1
 Overall quality 7.3 ± 1.6 7.3 ± 1.4 7.3 ± 1.8 1.000 7.6 ± 1.8
Resident-led problem based learning
 Effectiveness to prepare for shelf exam 7.2 ± 1.8 7.2 ± 2.1 7.2 ± 1.4 .915 6.8 ± 2.1 8.4 ± 1.4
 Effectiveness to prepare for oral exam 7.5 ± 1.2 7.4 ± 1.2 7.6 ± 1.2 .737 7.9 ± 2.0 8.5 ± 1.5
 Overall quality 8.4 ± 1.3 8.9 ± 1.0 7.9 ± 1.5 .032 9.1 ± 1.1