The Role of Integrative Educational Intervention Package (Monthly ITE, Mentoring, Mocked OSCE) in Improving Successfulness for Anesthesiology Residents in the National Board Exam

Ali Dabbagh; Hedayatollah Elyassi; A Sassan Sabouri; Kourosh Vahidshahi; Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee; Anesthesiology Department

doi:10.5812/aapm.98566

The Role of Integrative Educational Intervention Package (Monthly ITE, Mentoring, Mocked OSCE) in Improving Successfulness for Anesthesiology Residents in the National Board Exam

Anesth Pain Med. 2020 Apr 23;10(2):e98566. doi: 10.5812/aapm.98566. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Ali Dabbagh^{1

2}, Hedayatollah Elyassi³, A Sassan Sabouri^{1

4}, Kourosh Vahidshahi⁵, Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziaee⁶; Anesthesiology Department

Collaborators

Anesthesiology Department:
Dariush Abtahi, Homayoun Aghamohammadi, Narges Sadat Ahmadizadeh, Seyed Hossein Ardehali, Noor Mohammad Arefian, Hamidreza Azizi-Farsani, Faranak Behnaz, Shideh Dabir, Payman Dadkhah, Mastaneh Dahi, Masih Ebrahimy Dehkordy, Ahmad Eghbali, Lida Fadaizadeh, Kamal Fani, Mohammad Fathi, Behrooz Farzanegan, Mehdi Ghahremani, Babak Gharaei, Mahshid Ghasemi, Reza Goharani, Seyed Masoud Hashemi, Seyed-Mohammadreza Hashemian, Alireza Jaffari, Alireza Jahangiri Fard, Hossein Ali Jelveh-Moghadam, Mohammadreza Hajiesmaeili, Behnam Hoseini, Mohammadreza Kamranmanesh, Shayesteh Khorasanizadeh, Mehran Kouchek, Homeyra Kouzekanani, Nilofar Massoudi, Alireza Mahdavi, Elham Memary, Alireza Mirkheshti, Mir-Mohammad Miri, Gholamreza Mohseni, Sirous Momenzadeh, Faramarz Mosaffa, Mohammadreza Moshari, Kamran Mottaghi, Masoud Nashibi, Navid Nooraei, Hossein Nouri, Tahereh Parsa, Mahtab Poor Zamany Nejat Kermany, Badiozaman Radpay, Seyed Sajad Razavi, Fatemeh Roodneshin, Afsaneh Sadeghi, Farhad Safari, Sara Salarian, Alireza Salimi, Sohrab Salimi, Shahram Sayyadi, Parissa Sezari, Seyed Pouzhia Shojaei, Soodeh Tabashi, Mehrdad Taheri, Ardeshir Tajbakhsh, Houman Teymourian, Maryam Vosoghian

Affiliations

¹ Anesthesiology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Anesthesiology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Anesthesiology Department, Anesthesiology Research Center, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Anesthesiology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
⁵ Pediatric Cardiology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁶ Urology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Background: National Board of Anesthesiology (NBA) pass rate is an important and critical step in clinical residency programs.

Objectives: This study was designed to assess the relationship between an integrative educational intervention (IEI) and the relative annual pass rate (RAPR). RAPR is defined as ratio of NBA pass rate of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU) to the NBA pass rate of all the anesthesiology residency programs across Iran.

Methods: In a descriptive-analytic retrospective study from 2012 to 2019, RAPR was calculated. IEI was implanted in the latter 4years period of this time interval includes: (1) individualized mentorship for residents by faculty members; (2) monthly in-training examination (ITE) in written; and (3) periodical mocked OSCE exam. Spearman's correlation coefficient was used to assess correlation between integrative educational intervention and RAPR results. P value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results: There was a statistically significant relationship between "integrative educational intervention program" and the RAPR results: Spearman's correlation coefficient = 0.655 (P value = 0.039).

Conclusions: The IEI package of Anesthesiology Department, SBMU showed a significant relationship with improvements in successfulness for anesthesiology residents in the National Board Exam (RAPR trend). More prolonged studies could prevail further aspects of these interventions.

Keywords: Anesthesiology; Mentoring; Multiple Choice Question Exam; National Board Exam; Residency Program.