Videotape demonstration of physical examination: evaluation of its use in medical undergraduate teaching

Abstract

A videotape demonstration of the physical examination of the alimentary system was used, in place of a traditional lecture, in the first week of a teaching programme for half of a group of commencing, clinical students. At the end of the week, these students obtained higher scores than the matched controls in a clinical assessment which utilized an objective scoring-chart especially for this study.

A comparison between videotaped and live demonstrations, for the teaching of removable partial denture procedures

“…The use of videotape recordings also facilitates better visualisation of practical procedures, Beswick et al (4) believed that this was one of the factors responsible for the better performance by a group taught by the use of a videotaped as opposed to a live conventional lecture. Mir et al (6) also emphasised one advantage of a videotaped recording in that it may be used subsequently by students for private study.…”

“…Videotaped instruction has been shown to be more effective than the traditional lecture as a means of teaching clinical skills (4). Videotaped recordings were as effective as a lecture or live demonstration in teaching interviewing skills (5), clinical methods (6) and practical techniques (7) to medical and dental students.…”

Teaching Physical Diagnosis in the Nursing Home: A Prospective, Controlled Trial

“…In this study, outcome measures were based on student and patient assessments alone. Evaluation of some innovations in teaching physical diagnosis have assessed the actual skills acquired by the students 14–16 . However, in our study design students served as their own controls, with each student seeing patients in both settings.…”

Intensive bedside teaching of physical examination to medical undergraduates: evaluation including the effect of group size

“…The measuring instrument was a refined version of the standardized scoring chart developed and used by us in a previous study for assessment of student performance of examination of the alimentary system (Beswick, Cooper & Whelan, 1982). The ten major sections of this chart were further subdivided, giving a total of ninety‐five items.…”

“…Among the skills that medical students commencing tuition in clinical medicine need to develop are the correct techniques of physical examination. It has previously been shown in this clinical school that student performance of physical examination is better when bedside teaching is supplemented by videotape demonstration of these skills (Beswick, Cooper & Whelan, 1982).…”