Psychometric Properties of the Persian Questionnaire for Evaluation of Clinical Teaching at Outpatient Settings

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Table 1 The Content and Face Validity of Each of the Final Items of the Questionnaire

Domain	Number	Item	CVR	CVI	IS	Decision
Preparation	1	The students visit the patients under the supervision of clinical teachers at the outpatient clinics	0.87	0.82	4.34	Adopted
	2	The maximum number of students who are under the supervision of a clinical teacher is five at the outpatient clinics	0.89	0.87	4.12	Adopted
	3	The teaching hospitals have a general outpatient clinic or training the students	0.59	0.71	1.32	Omitted
	4	Each office is equipped with the required tools for a physical examination	0.91	0.89	4.54	Adopted
	5	The outpatient clinics are equipped with enough chairs and tables for students	0.61	0.67	1.45	Omitted
Scheduling	6	The students have been trained at least 2 days per week in the outpatient clinics	0.88	0.91	4.67	Adopted
	7	The students are present in the clinic from the beginning to the end	0.94	0.95	4.78	Adopted
Implementation	8	Learning the goals and necessary experiences have already been determined and the students have been informed	0.86	0.94	4.29	Adopted
	9	The training methods are used such that the students will be able to visit prevalent patients independently at the end of their clinical course	0.51	0.63	1.14	Omitted
	10	For each outpatient visit, the effective educational communication between the trainer and students takes place for a minimum of 3 minutes	0.95	0.85	3.78	Adopted
	11	The student actions have been documented in the students’ log books	0.81	0.89	3.89	Adopted
	12	Assessment of the students constitute their practice in the outpatient clinic	0.53	0.61	1.21	Omitted
	13	The students visit at least one new case at each session	0.58	0.51	1.35	Omitted
	14	The students have at least two night shifts and maximum of eight during each month of the course	0.93	0.88	4.97	Adopted
	15	Related references are in the clinic for the students' use	0.89	0.82	3.12	Modified

Abbreviations: CVR, content validity ratio; CVI, content validity index; IS, impact score.

Table 2 Exploratory Factors and Explained Variance After Rotation of the Questionnaire

Domain	Number of Items	Factor
		1	2	3
Preparation	2	0.949
	1	0.926
	4	0.831
Scheduling	7		0.905
	6		0.691
Implementation	10			0.784
	8			0.766
	11			0.684
	14			0.635
	15			0.611
Eigen value	–	3.45	1.51	1.13
Variance	–	32.05	15.23	11.25

Figure 1 Confirmatory factor model for outpatient clinical teaching.

Table 3 The Test–Retest Correlation Coefficients Between the First and the Second Time Completing the Questionnaire

Items	Kappa Value	p
Q1-1*Q1-2	0.84	<0.001
Q2-1*Q2-2	0.88	<0.001
Q3-1*Q3-2	0.98	<0.001
Q4-1*Q4-2	0.93	<0.001
Q5-1*Q5-2	1	<0.001
Q6-1*Q6-2	0.86	<0.001
Q7-1*Q7-2	1	<0.001
Q8-1*Q8-2	0.89	<0.001
Q9-1*Q9-2	0.96	<0.001
Q10-1*Q10-2	1	<0.001