Dermatology undergraduate skin cancer training: a disconnect between recommendations, clinical exposure and competence

Table 2 Students’ self-assessment of their own abilities at diagnosing the 3 major skin cancers on completion of the dermatology attachment

Questions: How confident are you in your ability to diagnose…	Mean Likert Score (Range)	Median Likert Score	Percentage of students “unconfident” (score <4)
…melanomas?	4.2 (2–6)	4	34% (n=15)
…squamous cell carcinomas?	4.3 (2–7)	4	27% (n=12)
…basal cell carcinomas?	4.8 (2–7)	5	14% (n=6)

44 completed the anonymous questionnaire in which they rated themselves on 7-point Likert scales (1=Extremely unconfident, 2=Unconfident, 3=Reasonably unconfident, 4=Not unconfident, 5=Reasonably confident, 6=Confident, 7=Extremely confident).