Ephrem Tefera, Jemal Mohammed, Habtamu Mitiku
Intestinal helminthic infections among elementary students of Babile town, eastern Ethiopia
The Pan African medical journal
simulation widely utilized medical education exploring effectiveness highfidelity simulation clinical research within medical education may inform integration clinical research training curricula finally cultivating physicianscientist development standard teaching scripts clinical trial crosssectional study simulation designed recruited undergraduates majoring clinical medicine 3th grade prepost intervention study additionally crosssectional survey randomly selected medical undergraduates 4th 5th grade medical students master doctor degree external controls selfassessment scores knowledge practice collected using 5point likert scale changes scores tested wilcoxon signedrank test group comparisons conducted dunns tests multiple corrections multivariable quantile regressions used explore factors influencing changes baseline seventyeight undergraduates involved clinical trial simulation reported improvement 160 95 ci 148 180 p 0001 knowledge 182 95 ci 164 200 p 0001 practice score 83 undergraduates involved observational study simulation reported improvement 096 95 ci 079 118 p 0001 knowledge 100 95 ci 079 121 p 0001 practice postintervention scores significantly higher three external control groups p 0001 higher agreement importance clinical research correlated greater improvements scores undergraduates prepost study showed high confidence future clinical research study provides evidence supporting integration simulation clinical research curriculum medical students importance clinical research emphasized training enhance learning effect