Design of a perceived quality scale in orthopaedic surgery education

José A de Pedro; Pilar Jiménez-Tello; Ana Castel; Miguel A Martín-Ferrero; Fernando Martínez-Abad; José Joaquín Mira

doi:10.1016/j.jhqr.2018.01.003

Design of a perceived quality scale in orthopaedic surgery education

J Healthc Qual Res. 2018 Mar-Apr;33(2):101-104. doi: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2018.01.003. Epub 2018 May 7.

Authors

José A de Pedro¹, Pilar Jiménez-Tello², Ana Castel³, Miguel A Martín-Ferrero⁴, Fernando Martínez-Abad⁵, José Joaquín Mira⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedics, University of Salamanca, Spain. Electronic address: pjtello@usal.es.
² University of Salamanca, Spain.
³ Department of Orthopaedics, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Physical Therapy, University of Valladolid, Spain.
⁵ Department of Didactics, Organization and Research Methods in Education, University of Salamanca, Spain.
⁶ Health Psychology Department, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain.

PMID: 31610973
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2018.01.003

Abstract

Objectives: The experience of students contributes to proactively identifying the changes necessary in training approaches and activities. The main objective of the Institutional Evaluation Programme was to design and validate a tool that permits discerning the experience of students from traumatology teaching.

Methods: Lecturers from the Orthopaedic Surgery Teaching Unit and experts in quality evaluation methodology, prepared the initial items. In this study, a descriptive analysis was carried out first, followed by an analysis of internal consistency and reliability, construction validity, and predictive validity.

Results: The results (Cronbach's alpha=0.58, Inter-Item Correlations >0.5, Eigenvalues >0.6, factor loadings, and the Student t-test values) confirmed its reliability and validity.

Conclusions: The developed scale is reliable and valid to assess the experience of students. The use of a tool with these characteristics systematically contributes to improve teaching quality.

Keywords: Cuestionario; Educación; Education; Estudiantes de medicina; Medical student; Questionnaire; Traumatology; Traumatología.