, Kiryung Park, Eunkyoung Eo, Jin-Hyuk Choi, Jungsu Lee, Whasoon Chung Malaria has a wordwide incidence of more than one thousand to three thousand million clinical cases and results in approximately 200 to 300 million deaths per year. Although Korea was an endemic area of Malaria, it was nearly eradicated from the country. However, indigenous cases of malaria have been reported since 1994. Recently, we experienced a case of Plasmodium vivax infection in a resident of Seoul. A 25-year old young man who had no history of being abroad, blood transfusion nor parenteral use of drug visited our hospital due to fever and chill for 4 days. A peripheral blood smear demonstrated Plasmodium vivax infection. He was treated with hydroxychoroquine and premaquine without relapse.
, Miae Lee, Whasoon Chung Undergraduate medical students should learn oral presentation skills, which are central to physician-physician communication. The purpose of this study was to compare checklist scores with global ratings for evaluation of oral case presentation and to investigate interrater agreement in the scoring of checklists.
The study group included twenty-one teams of undergraduate medical students who did clerkship for 2 weeks in the department of Laboratory Medicine of Mokdong Hospital, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University from January 2005 to October 2006. Three faculty raters independently evaluated oral case presentations by checklists, composing of 5 items. A consensus scores of global ratings were determined after discusssion. Inter-rater agreement was measured using intraclass correlation coefficient(ICC). As the ICC values approaches 1.0, it means higher inter-rater agreement.
The mean of consensus global ratings was significantly higher than that of checklists by three faculty raters(12.6±1.7 vs 11.1±2.0,
These results suggest that checklist scores by faculty raters could be one of the most useful tools for evaluation of oral case presentation, if checklist would be modified to make less ambiguous and more objective and faculty raters would have opportunities to be educated and trained for evaluation skills of oral case presentation.
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