PMID- 24563242
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141224
LR  - 20140408
IS  - 1545-7230 (Electronic)
IS  - 1042-9670 (Linking)
VI  - 38
IP  - 2
DP  - 2014 Apr
TI  - Using Audience Response System technology and PRITE questions to improve 
      psychiatric residents' medical knowledge.
PG  - 205-8
LID - 10.1007/s40596-014-0058-2 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: Interactive educational tools are thought to convey material 
      effectively. Audience Response Systems (ARSs), in particular, have been shown to 
      improve written test scores in several residency fields but have not been 
      previously reported in psychiatry. Such an approach may prove a valuable tool in 
      improving test performance and medical knowledge. METHODS: Psychiatry residents 
      were required to attend 12 90-min review sessions throughout the summer that 
      utilized previous Psychiatry Residency In-Training Exam (PRITE) questions and an 
      ARS to provide immediate feedback and a stimulus for discussion. Preparation for 
      these sessions was either unsupervised (phase I) or involved a personalized 
      reading program for residents who scored below the 50th percentile. Data were 
      evaluated with ANOVA and unpaired 2-tail tests. RESULTS: Overall performance on 
      the PRITE examination improved significantly as compared to pre-intervention 
      controls (change in score 17.0 +/- SD 16.6 vs 6.4 +/- 12.6, P = 0.0068). The addition 
      of a personalized reading program did not improve raw score performance 
      significantly beyond the improvement seen with ARS alone but did slightly improve 
      percentile rank and STD score. CONCLUSIONS: Utilization of the interactive ARS 
      may improve performance on PRITE examination for residents.
FAU - Hettinger, Amanda
AU  - Hettinger A
AD  - University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
FAU - Spurgeon, Joyce
AU  - Spurgeon J
FAU - El-Mallakh, Rif
AU  - El-Mallakh R
FAU - Fitzgerald, Barbara
AU  - Fitzgerald B
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140222
PL  - United States
TA  - Acad Psychiatry
JT  - Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of 
      Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry
JID - 8917200
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Educational Measurement/*methods/standards
MH  - Educational Technology/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - Humans
MH  - Internship and Residency/*standards
MH  - Psychiatry/*education
EDAT- 2014/02/25 06:00
MHDA- 2014/12/30 06:00
CRDT- 2014/02/25 06:00
PHST- 2013/03/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/12/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/02/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/02/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/12/30 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s40596-014-0058-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Apr;38(2):205-8. doi: 10.1007/s40596-014-0058-2. Epub 2014 
      Feb 22.