Investigating the Effect of DxR Simulation Software on the Diagnostic Skills of Medical Students and their Motivation towards Learning

أسم المؤلف: رافعة أحمد علي بن علي

الوصف:
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of using elearning based on Diagnostic Reasoning (DxR) simulation software on students' medical diagnostic skills and their motivation towards learning. The study was conducted on the fourth year medical students who were studying DxR simulation software as a part of Multi System Integration Unit (unit IX) at the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) College of Medicine and Medical Sciences. The study was performed during the second semester of the academic year 2015/2016. The experiment took six weeks. The study sample consisted of 157 students who represented the accessible sample. A quasi-experimental research method, time-series design with pre and post test, was used to investigate the following hypotheses: developing an elearning environment based on DxR simulation software will significantly affect AGU medical students` diagnostic skills, developing an elearning environment based on DxR simulation software will significantly affect AGU medical students` motivation towards learning. The researcher assessed the participants' diagnostic skills and motivation at two different points during the six weeks. The researcher started the experiment on the 6th of March 2016; the participants took the first three DxR cases in traditional method and without any online materials a period of three weeks. By the end of the third week the researcher assessed the students' diagnostic skills and their motivation towards learning using Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS) scale. Then students were allowed to access online materials relevant to the last three DxR cases within Blackboard LMS during three weeks. By the end of the sixth week the researcher assessed again the students' diagnostic skills and their motivation towards learning. Results revealed statistically and practically significant differences (α=0.05) between the pre and post applications in favor of the post application concerning medical diagnostic skills assessed by DxR, and in all categories of motivation. Therefore, it could be concluded that the elearning was effective.

التوثيق: بن علي, �. �. (2016). Investigating the Effect of DxR Simulation Software on the Diagnostic Skills of Medical Students and their Motivation towards Learning. Kingdom of Bahrain: Arabian Gulf University.