The Impact of Educational Resources and Perceived Preparedness on Medical Education Performance

• DOI: 10.1007/s40670-021-01306-x
• Publication Date: 2021-05-26T20:02:37Z
• Authors: Justin Bauzon; Amalie Alver; Vishvaas Ravikumar; Adrian Devera; Tatiana Mikhael; Rafae Nauman; Edward Simanton
• Keywords: Preparedness; Educational resources

Undergraduate medical education has evolved necessarily with the increasing utilization of technology and availability ancillary resources developed for students. However, educational are expensive there have been few studies validating these their ability to significantly modify student exam performance.A post-exam survey was devised evaluate students resource usage, student-perceived preparedness, performance.Students who felt more prepared exams performed better than less (p = .017). Students watched didactic lectures online those utilized peer-to-peer tutoring outperformed did not use .035, p .008). Analyses data show that none purchased improved performance. The majority used between six eight preparation. There may be a slightly negative association quantity scores .18).Contrary traditional confidence correlate overconfidence underperformance, reported feeling prepared.Medical complete grasp knowledge base deficits, which enable accurate match expectations academic This method can customized applied utility as it pertains specific undergraduate curricula at individual institutions.