Final Year Medical Students' Perception of Different Assessment Methods in the Internal Medicine Department, University of Benghazi
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https://doi.org/10.37376/benunivmedj.v3i1.7890Keywords:
Medical, Final, perception, Exam, Benghazi University, written, OSCE, PerceptionAbstract
Introduction: Assessment of medical students involves many challenges and processes to develop competent physicians; nonetheless, students' feelings and perceptions of assessment methods are usually neglected.
Aim: To evaluate the perception of final year medical students to different assessment methods in the final examination at the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Benghazi.
Methods: A cross-sectional study. An electronic three-point Likert scale questionnaire was distributed to final year medical students electronically.
Results: A total number of 337 students were included in the study. The majority of the studied group were females and accounted for 255 (75.7%). The mean age was 27.7 years. Exam unfairness was reported by 85.8% of students while 81.9% reported that the exam was dreadful. Females significantly reported more perception of exam unfairness than males 90%vs 74% respectively (P=0.0013).
Conclusion: Students reported high anxiety, and females perceived unfairness more significantly than males.
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