A Study to Test a New Pelvic Examination Assessment Tool (PEAT)

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Status

Completed

Conditions

Female Pelvic Examination

Treatments

Procedure: Observed Structured Assessment Tool in Pelvic Examination

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01725581

PEAT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to show that a new assessment tool for pelvic examination is valid and reliable.

Full description

Physical examination of the pelvis is an important core skill that medical students need to acquire. However, due to its intimate nature some students are graduating unable to perform competent pelvic examinations. At present, evaluation of the medical students competence at pelvic examination is done by subjective faculty assessment. This assessment is typically performed at the end of the teaching block and is based on the assessors' recollection of the students' performance. This kind of assessment has been shown to have poor validity and reliability. This is in contrast to objective structured assessments of technical skill (OSATS), which use task specific and global rating scales and have been used to evaluate a wide range of clinical and surgical skills. However, no studies to date have evaluated an assessment tool for pelvic examination. In this study the investigators aim to determine the validity and reliability of an OSATS for pelvic examination. In addition, the investigators aim to identify factors that influence the scores in OSATS.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Final year medical students starting their Obstetrics and Gynaecology placement
Final year medical students finishing their Obstetrics and Gynaecology placement
Pre Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology registered junior doctors doing a Obstetrics and Gynaecology placement.
Signed Consent Form

Exclusion criteria

• None