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The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial

BACKGROUND: Teaching histology as an image-intensive discipline is a major challenge to medical teachers. We compared knowledge retention and student preference after performing comparison-based and traditional methods of teaching practical histology. METHODS: We performed a crossover randomized con...

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Autores principales: Al Khader, Ali, Odeh, Hadeel, Salameh, Muna A., Kaddumi, Ezidin G., Al-Saghbini, Mohamad, Obeidat, Fatima N., Abu Shahin, Nisreen, Younes, Nidal A.
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10545215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34449495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027054
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author Al Khader, Ali
Odeh, Hadeel
Salameh, Muna A.
Kaddumi, Ezidin G.
Al-Saghbini, Mohamad
Obeidat, Fatima N.
Abu Shahin, Nisreen
Younes, Nidal A.
author_facet Al Khader, Ali
Odeh, Hadeel
Salameh, Muna A.
Kaddumi, Ezidin G.
Al-Saghbini, Mohamad
Obeidat, Fatima N.
Abu Shahin, Nisreen
Younes, Nidal A.
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description BACKGROUND: Teaching histology as an image-intensive discipline is a major challenge to medical teachers. We compared knowledge retention and student preference after performing comparison-based and traditional methods of teaching practical histology. METHODS: We performed a crossover randomized controlled trial. Eighty nine first-year and 37 second-year medical students were randomly assigned to comparison-based or traditional classes in which PowerPoint slides were used. Each teaching approach was then switched to another group for a second tissue set. Quantitative assessment was performed using multiple-choice questions and a questionnaire. RESULTS: The first-year students’ overall examination scores were significantly higher in the comparison-based approach compared to the traditional approach for both tissue sets, with a large effect size. Interestingly, even for the second-year students, a significantly higher overall score for one set of tissue samples was observed in the comparison-based approach compared to the traditional approach. The students’ responses to all the elements in the questionnaire were significantly in favor of the comparison-based approach. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that the simple implementation of a few histopathology examples can yield a tremendous improvement in first-year medical students’ understanding, enjoyment, and engagement in practical histology classes.
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spelling pubmed-105452152023-10-03 The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial Al Khader, Ali Odeh, Hadeel Salameh, Muna A. Kaddumi, Ezidin G. Al-Saghbini, Mohamad Obeidat, Fatima N. Abu Shahin, Nisreen Younes, Nidal A. Medicine (Baltimore) 3200 BACKGROUND: Teaching histology as an image-intensive discipline is a major challenge to medical teachers. We compared knowledge retention and student preference after performing comparison-based and traditional methods of teaching practical histology. METHODS: We performed a crossover randomized controlled trial. Eighty nine first-year and 37 second-year medical students were randomly assigned to comparison-based or traditional classes in which PowerPoint slides were used. Each teaching approach was then switched to another group for a second tissue set. Quantitative assessment was performed using multiple-choice questions and a questionnaire. RESULTS: The first-year students’ overall examination scores were significantly higher in the comparison-based approach compared to the traditional approach for both tissue sets, with a large effect size. Interestingly, even for the second-year students, a significantly higher overall score for one set of tissue samples was observed in the comparison-based approach compared to the traditional approach. The students’ responses to all the elements in the questionnaire were significantly in favor of the comparison-based approach. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that the simple implementation of a few histopathology examples can yield a tremendous improvement in first-year medical students’ understanding, enjoyment, and engagement in practical histology classes. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10545215/ /pubmed/34449495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027054 Text en Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License 4.0 (CCBY-NC), where it is permissible to download, share, remix, transform, and buildup the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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Al Khader, Ali
Odeh, Hadeel
Salameh, Muna A.
Kaddumi, Ezidin G.
Al-Saghbini, Mohamad
Obeidat, Fatima N.
Abu Shahin, Nisreen
Younes, Nidal A.
The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial
title The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial
title_full The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial
title_fullStr The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial
title_full_unstemmed The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial
title_short The usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: A CONSORT-compliant randomized crossover trial
title_sort usefulness of histopathology examples in teaching practical histology for medical students: a consort-compliant randomized crossover trial
topic 3200
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10545215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34449495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000027054
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