Yeung R'ong Tan, Suhana Jawahir, Jennifer Geraldine Doss
Oral healthcare seeking behavior of Malaysian adults in urban and rural areas: findings from the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2019
BMC oral health
teaching pointofcare ultrasonography pocus medical students resource intensive peerassisted learning teacher medical student may feasible alternative expertled learning objective systematic review metaanalysis compare pocus performance assessments medical students receiving peerassisted vs expertled learning study submitted prospero crd42023383915 reported prisma guidelines medline embase eric education source scopus web science searched inception november 2022 inclusion criteria studies comparing peerassisted vs expertled pocus teaching undergraduate medical students primary outcome performance assessment pocus skills two reviewers independently screened citations extracted data cochrane riskofbias tool randomized trials used assess study quality studies included metaanalysis mean performance assessment scores standard deviations sample sizes available randomeffects metaanalysis conducted estimate accuracy score practical knowledge test group metaregression evaluated difference mean scores search yielded 2890 citations 1417 unique citations remained removing duplicates nine randomizedcontrolled studies conducted germany usa israel 593 participants included metaanalysis included studies assessed teaching abdominal cardiac thoracic musculoskeletal ocular pocus skills studies riskofbias concerns estimate accuracy score weighting 056 95 ci 047 065 peerassisted learning 059 95 ci 049 069 expertled learning regression coefficient estimate 00281 95 ci 01121 01683 p value 069 metaanalysis found peerassisted learning reasonable alternative expertled learning teaching pocus skills medical students