What is it about?
At the Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine first-year students take two courses in health communication. In the Centre for Medical Sciences Education students completed a course experience questionnaire. This instrument is potentially useful in evaluating innovative programmes and securing support for their development.
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Why is it important?
Although the course experience questionnire (CEQ) has been used in various contexts for program evaluaton, few measures exist for medical contexts. This study reports on the modification of an existing form for use in a medical context. In 1997 – 1998 medical, dentistry, veterinary medicine and pharmacy students completed the original short form of the CEQ25 including five items specific to medical communication skills teaching. Students used a five-point Likert scale ranging from one, indicating that they strongly disagreed with the statement, to a score of five, reporting that they strongly agreed with the statement. Principal Components Analysis with Varimax rotation analysed the scale structure of the evaluation tool.
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While teaching in the Centre for Medical Sciences Education, I became increasingly interested in what students thought of the medical communication courses as a programme of study. There were rudimentary student evaluation of teachng forms in use but at the time they were not linked to the components that had been researched and found to be concerned with their overall course experience. My research showed that Bligh's CEQ could be useful so I designed and conducted a study and collaborated with my two colleagues. The study found the modified CEQ30 is a reliable instrument with which to evaluate a course in medical communication skills, and encourage reflection on teaching and course design.
Dr Godfrey A Steele
University of the West Indies
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This page is a summary of: Using A Modified Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) to Evaluate the Innovative Teaching of Medical Communication Skills, Education for Health, January 2003, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1357628031000116754.
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