Student Fatigue as a Variable Affecting Performance in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.

Rutala, Paul J.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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Student Fatigue as a Variable Affecting Performance in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.

Rutala, Paul J.; And Others

Academic Medicine, v65 n9 suppl pS53-54 Sep 1990

In August and September of 1989, 76 fourth year students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine took the objective structured clinical examinations. Analyses were conducted looking at the relationship of sequence to see whether scores showed a decrease in the afternoon. No significant effect of examinee fatigue was seen. (MLW)

Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Fatigue (Biology), Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Medical Students, Patients, Performance, Physical Examinations, Simulation, Student Evaluation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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