Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Educational intervention to improve preclinical academic performance: A systematic review

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

. Soleiman Ahmady
. Nasrin Khajeali 1
. Farshad Sharifi 2
. Zohrehsadat Mirmoghtadaei 3

1 Department of Medical Education, Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,

2 Elderly Health Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical

3 Department of Medical Education, Virtual School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Department of Medical Education, Virtual University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
INTRODUCTION: One of the major problems of higher education centers is the students’ academic
failure. Increased monitoring, counseling, or remediation may tax the resources of both the program
and the faculty. The present review study gathered evidence highlighted by the experimental studies
on the educational intervention with the purpose of improving preclinical medical performance.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: To achieve the intended studies, databases of PubMed, Web of
Knowledge (Thomson Reuters), Educational Resources and Information Center, and the Scopus were
searched. The inclusion criteria were being an interventional study and assessing the educational
intervention to preclinical academic performance. The study was carried out as a systematic literature
search published between January 1987 and January 2018. Based on valid tool through the best
evidence medical education review, after assessing the quality of the studies.
RESULTS: Ten studies were enrolled in the review for final evaluation. The Kirkpatrick Model was
employed to analyze and synthesize the included studies.
CONCLUSION: Reviewing the conducted studies showed that medical students had positive
responses and attitudes toward new teaching methods, self‑monitoring skills, and attention
to physiological needs. The results also indicated that new teaching strategies, attention to
self‑monitoring skills, and sleep hygiene in medical education could positively affect learning in two
domains of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Keywords

Educational intervention
medical student
new teaching strategies
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion
Volume 9, Issue 4
April 2019
Pages 1-7

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