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Effect of phone call distraction on the performance of medical students in an OSCE

BACKGROUND: The usage of smartphones in the daily clinical routine is an essential aspect however it seems that they also present an important distractor that needs to be evaluated. The aim of this prospective study was the evaluation of the influence of phone calls as distractors on the performance...

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Autores principales: Toader, Justus F., Kleinert, Robert, Dratsch, Thomas, Fettweis, Louisa, Jakovljevic, Nadja, Graupner, Martina, Zeeh, Moritz, Kroll, Anna C., Fuchs, Hans F., Wahba, Roger, Plum, Patrick, Bruns, Christiane J., Datta, Rabi R.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9020121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35443638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03215-y
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author Toader, Justus F.
Kleinert, Robert
Dratsch, Thomas
Fettweis, Louisa
Jakovljevic, Nadja
Graupner, Martina
Zeeh, Moritz
Kroll, Anna C.
Fuchs, Hans F.
Wahba, Roger
Plum, Patrick
Bruns, Christiane J.
Datta, Rabi R.
author_facet Toader, Justus F.
Kleinert, Robert
Dratsch, Thomas
Fettweis, Louisa
Jakovljevic, Nadja
Graupner, Martina
Zeeh, Moritz
Kroll, Anna C.
Fuchs, Hans F.
Wahba, Roger
Plum, Patrick
Bruns, Christiane J.
Datta, Rabi R.
author_sort Toader, Justus F.
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description BACKGROUND: The usage of smartphones in the daily clinical routine is an essential aspect however it seems that they also present an important distractor that needs to be evaluated. The aim of this prospective study was the evaluation of the influence of phone calls as distractors on the performance levels of medical students during an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), simulating the normal clinical practice. METHODS: As the goal of an OSCE presents the examination of clinical skills of medical students in a realistic setting, more than 100 students recruited from the university hospital of Cologne participated in either OSCE I or II. During the OSCE I intravenous cannulation was simulated while OSCE II simulated an acute abdominal pain station. Participants had to perform each of these stations under two circumstances: a normal simulated OSCE and an OSCE station with phone call distraction. Their performance during both simulations was then evaluated. RESULTS: In OSCE I students achieved significantly more points in the intravenous cannulation station if they were not distracted by phone calls (M=6.44 vs M=5.95). In OSCE II students achieved significantly more points in the acute abdominal pain station if they were not distracted by phone calls (M=7.59 vs M=6.84). While comparing only those students that completed both stations in OSCE I/II participating students achieved significantly more points in both OSCE I and II if they were not distracted by phone calls. CONCLUSION: The presented data shows that phone call distraction decreases the performance level of medical students during an OSCE station. Therefore, it is an indicator that distraction especially for younger doctors should be held to a minimum. On a second note distraction should be integrated in the medical education system as it plays an important role in clinical routine.
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spelling pubmed-90201212022-04-21 Effect of phone call distraction on the performance of medical students in an OSCE Toader, Justus F. Kleinert, Robert Dratsch, Thomas Fettweis, Louisa Jakovljevic, Nadja Graupner, Martina Zeeh, Moritz Kroll, Anna C. Fuchs, Hans F. Wahba, Roger Plum, Patrick Bruns, Christiane J. Datta, Rabi R. BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: The usage of smartphones in the daily clinical routine is an essential aspect however it seems that they also present an important distractor that needs to be evaluated. The aim of this prospective study was the evaluation of the influence of phone calls as distractors on the performance levels of medical students during an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), simulating the normal clinical practice. METHODS: As the goal of an OSCE presents the examination of clinical skills of medical students in a realistic setting, more than 100 students recruited from the university hospital of Cologne participated in either OSCE I or II. During the OSCE I intravenous cannulation was simulated while OSCE II simulated an acute abdominal pain station. Participants had to perform each of these stations under two circumstances: a normal simulated OSCE and an OSCE station with phone call distraction. Their performance during both simulations was then evaluated. RESULTS: In OSCE I students achieved significantly more points in the intravenous cannulation station if they were not distracted by phone calls (M=6.44 vs M=5.95). In OSCE II students achieved significantly more points in the acute abdominal pain station if they were not distracted by phone calls (M=7.59 vs M=6.84). While comparing only those students that completed both stations in OSCE I/II participating students achieved significantly more points in both OSCE I and II if they were not distracted by phone calls. CONCLUSION: The presented data shows that phone call distraction decreases the performance level of medical students during an OSCE station. Therefore, it is an indicator that distraction especially for younger doctors should be held to a minimum. On a second note distraction should be integrated in the medical education system as it plays an important role in clinical routine. BioMed Central 2022-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9020121/ /pubmed/35443638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03215-y Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Toader, Justus F.
Kleinert, Robert
Dratsch, Thomas
Fettweis, Louisa
Jakovljevic, Nadja
Graupner, Martina
Zeeh, Moritz
Kroll, Anna C.
Fuchs, Hans F.
Wahba, Roger
Plum, Patrick
Bruns, Christiane J.
Datta, Rabi R.
Effect of phone call distraction on the performance of medical students in an OSCE
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title_short Effect of phone call distraction on the performance of medical students in an OSCE
title_sort effect of phone call distraction on the performance of medical students in an osce
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9020121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35443638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03215-y
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