"Best practice" skills lab training vs. a "see one, do one" approach in undergraduate medical education: an RCT on students' long-term ability to perform procedural clinical skills.

BACKGROUND: Benefits of skills lab training are widely accepted, but there is sparse research on its long-term effectiveness. We therefore conducted a prospective, randomised controlled-trial to investigate whether in a simulated setting students trained according to a "best practice" mode...

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Main Authors: Anne Herrmann-Werner, Christoph Nikendei, Katharina Keifenheim, Hans Martin Bosse, Frederike Lund, Robert Wagner, Nora Celebi, Stephan Zipfel, Peter Weyrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3783438?pdf=render