Table 3 |
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Patients' preferences with regard to medical students learning by hospital |
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Item |
All patients (400) No (%) |
Al Mouassat University Hospital (175) No (%) |
Maternity University Hospital (125) No (%) |
Al Assad University Hospital (100) No (%) |
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Do you prefer to be examined by? * ‡ |
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Medical student with same sex as yours |
124 (31.6) |
36 (20.8) |
74 (59.7) |
14 (14.6) |
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No difference |
236 (60.1) |
121 (69.9) |
36 (29) |
79 (82.3) |
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I do not agree in all cases |
33 (8.4) |
16 (9.2) |
14 (11.3) |
3 (3.1) |
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What is your preferred number of students to exist during clinical consultation? * ‡ |
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Nil |
4 (1) |
3 (1.7) |
1 (0.8) |
- (-) |
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1-3 |
58 (14.6) |
36 (20.8) |
16 (12.8) |
6 (6.1) |
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4-8 |
224 (56.4) |
94 (54.3) |
82 (65.6) |
48 (48.5) |
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9 or more |
111 (28) |
40 (23.1) |
26 (20.8) |
45 (45.5) |
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What is your preferred number of students to examine you during clinical consultation? * ‡ |
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Nil |
107 (26.8) |
71 (40.6) |
29 (23.2) |
7 (7) |
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1-2 |
237 (59.3) |
80 (45.7) |
92 (73.6) |
65 (65) |
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3-5 |
43 (10.8) |
18 (10.3) |
3 (2.4) |
22 (22) |
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6 or more |
13 (3.3) |
6 (3.4) |
1 (0.8) |
6 (6) |
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Do you prefer to have the clinical examination by the medical students? * ‡ |
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At the same time |
138 (35.8) |
56 (32.4) |
47 (40.9) |
35 (36.1) |
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One visit by a group |
23 (6) |
8 (4.6) |
6 (7.8) |
6 (6.2) |
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Frequent visits by students |
73 (19) |
20 (11.6) |
24 (20.9) |
29 (29.9) |
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Does not matter |
151 (39.2) |
89 (51.4) |
35 (30.4) |
27 (27.8) |
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* P < 0.001 ‡ P < 0.05 after stratifying for sex of the patient •Total might be less than 400 due to missing values |
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Sayed-Hassan et al. BMC Medical Education 2012 12:13 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-12-13 |
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