Confidence in Orthopedic Procedures among Burapha University Medical Students
Keywords:
Medical procedure, Orthopedic procedure, Confidence levelAbstract
Graduated physicians must pass the medical professional certification including ability to perform
basic procedures. The data of confidence for doing a procedure is limited. This information is
important to adjust a medical student program and also to evaluate the quality of the present
program. The objective of this study is to evaluate the confidence level in basic orthopedic
procedures of medical students, Burapha University with a questionnaire. Results of the study
demonstrated that the confidence levels in orthopedic specialty procedures were low, which
were similar to previous studies. The significant factors that affected confidence level were the
procedure difficulty and the number of case exposure. Sex and Grade Point Average Cumulative
(GPAX) were not ployrole. The number of exposed cases in most procedures were not sufficient.
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