1. First aid and basic life support training for first year medical students
- Author
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Kerim Hakan Altintaş, Nazmi Bilir, Ali Yildiz, Sevkat Bahar Ozvariş, and Dilek Aslan
- Subjects
Program evaluation ,Medical education ,Students, Medical ,business.industry ,MEDLINE ,Basic life support ,Problem-Based Learning ,Training (civil) ,Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ,Problem-based learning ,Emergency Medicine ,Medicine ,First Aid ,Humans ,business ,Training program ,First aid ,Education, Medical, Undergraduate ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
We developed 24 and 12-h programs for first aid and basic life support (FA-BLS) training for first-year medical students and evaluated the opinions of both the trainers and trainees on the effectiveness of the programs. The trainees were the first-year students of academic years 2000-2001 (316 students) and 2001-2002 (366 students). The evaluations of the participants were collected from short questionnaires created specifically for the study. For the 24-h training program, most of the students stated that FA-BLS sessions met their expectations (85.9%) and they were satisfied with the training (91.1%). Of the participants, 75.6% stated that they could apply FA confidently in real situations simulating the topics they learned in the FA-BLS sessions. For the 12-h training program, 84.4% of the students felt themselves competent in FA-BLS applications. The trainers considered both of the programs as effective.
- Published
- 2009