Role of clinical skill centre in undergraduate medical education: Initial experience at rehman medical college Peshawar

Objective: to assess the performance of students on clinical skill factors and to measure the satisfaction level of students related to the training. methods: the descriptive study was conducted at rehman medical college,peshawar,pakistan,from august 1 to september 15,2013,and comprised all third-year medical students who had undergone clinical skill training. their performance was evaluated through end-of-module objective structured clinical examination. students’ feedback measuring satisfaction on a five-point likert scale was obtained on a designed validated tool. monitoring of the clinical skills centre training programme was done by the quality enhancement cell at the college. spss 16 was used for statistical analysis. results: of the 98 students who took the examinations,94(96%) cleared generic stations and 70(72%) to 96(98%) discipline-based stations. overall,94(96%) cleared the first objective structured clinical examination,ranging from 83(84.6%) for persian language conversation training to 98(100%) for general physical examination. in the second examination,90(92%) students passed; ranging from 72(73%) for gynaecology to 97(98.7%) each for surgery and ear,nose and throat. there was no significant difference between mean results of the two exams (p>0.05). conclusion: clinical skills training achieved the desired objectives and outcomes. however,continuing studies need to be done to establish reliability of the programme. � 2017,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.