Effects of reflection and immediate feedback to improve clinical reasoning of medical students in the assessment of dermatologic conditions: a randomised controlled trial

Table 3 Mean scores of students in the experimental, lecture, and no intervention groups*

	No intervention	Lecture	Experiment	P-value^†
	(n = 34)	(n = 26)	(n = 27)
Baseline
Control set	4.5 ± 1.6	4.5 ± 1.7	4.6 ± 1.6	0.974
Training set	4.7 ± 1.2	5.4 ± 1.8	5.6 ± 1.6	0.061
After a 2-week dermatology elective course
Control set	6.4 ± 1.6	7.2 ± 1.8	6.9 ± 1.4	0.137
Training set	5.6 ± 1.3^A	5.7 ± 1.6^A	7.5 ± 1.3^B	< 0.001

^*Values are means ± SDs
^†P values by a linear mixed effects model. Groups not sharing a common superscript (capital A, B) significantly differ in the Tukey’s post hoc test

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