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Abstract
The integration of web-based learning into the curriculum of healthcare education has significantly increased over the past decade. This article aims to describe the student perspectives of an online module to teach physical assessment skills for pharmacy, dentistry, and dental hygiene students. A total of 103 students completed the online module: 48 third-year pharmacy students, 29 first-year dentistry students, and 26 first-year dental hygiene students. Students were asked to rate a list of 10 statements on a 5-point Likert scale on the relevance, impact, and overall satisfaction of the online module. Eighty-four of the 103 students (81.6% response rate) completed the questionnaire. While most students responded positively to the online content, pharmacy students responded more favorably compared with students from Dentistry and Dental Hygiene. These findings provide useful information to identify areas in which the web-based module can be improved for teaching skills in physical assessment across multiple healthcare programs.
Acknowledgements
The authors want to thank Dr. Cheryl Kristjanson from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Manitoba for her consultation on program evaluation during the development of the manuscript.
Declaration of interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the writing and content of the paper.
Notes
1Because the students’ responses represented an ordinal variable, the group ratings were compared with a Kruskal–Wallis test followed by a Mann–Whitney U test for each pairwise comparison. The results of these nonparametric analyses matched those obtained from the ANOVA and Bonferroni tests. The results of the ANOVA and Bonferroni tests are reported because the mean scores are more readily interpretable.