Voluntary attendance of small-group brainstorming tutoring courses intensify new clerk’s “excellence in clinical care”: a pilot study

Table 4 Comparison of the performance of formative “clinical excellence” OSCE of three groups of class 2013 and 2014 clerks

	Small-group brainstorming course participants (n = 84)		Classroom tutoring course participants (n = 86)		Participants of control group (n = 82)
	OSCE_diag scores	OSCE_reason scores	OSCE_diag scores	OSCE_reason scores	OSCE_diag scores	OSCE_reason scores
Basic EKG diagnostic and clinical reasoning station	91.2 ± 8.31*	88.3 ± 3.9**	82.3 ± ^#	71.69 ± 4.8^##	81.0 ± 2.7^#	70.5 ± 3.4^#
Basic CXR diagnostic and clinical reasoning station	90.1 ± 6.92**	82.1 ± 2.5	78.2 ± ^##	81.2 ± 7.9	73.4 ± 1.9	80.9 ± 7.7
Basic KUB diagnostic and clinical reasoning station	94.5 ± 3.21*	73.5 ± 1.4	83.7 ± ^#	70.2 ± 6.8	84.5 ± 3.2^#	69.8 ± 3.4
Basic ABG diagnostic and clinical reasoning station	86.7 ± 3.97*	77.98 ± 4.2	79.4 ± ^##	74.5 ± 2.9	76.9 ± 2.2^#	75.7 ± 4.8
Basic CBC and biochemistry diagnostic and clinical reasoning station	89.2 ± 1.59*	96.4 ± 5.3**	81.6 ± ^#	89.8 ± 4.4^#	82.9 ± 1.7	84.5 ± 3.7^#
Overall OSCE scores	445.4 ± 6.45**	424.2 ± 11**	405.2 ± 9^#	387.4 ± 16^#	398.7 ± 21^#	381.4 ± 29^#

*P < 0.05 or **P < 0.01 vs. regular controls; ^# P < 0.05 or ^## P < 0.01 vs. small-group team tutoring courses tutees

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