Applying Videos Feedback Learning to Improve Skills Performance of Physiotherapy Interns

Overview

This project uses self-practicing videos feedback to learn to improve the skill performance of physiotherapy interns. For traditional physiotherapy intern courses, teachers will conduct core courses and demonstrate teaching, but students are less familiar with the application of skills, even if adding practice course. The learning outcomes of the course are still not good in skill performance. By recording the self-practicing videos, the teacher uses observation and feedback to let the physiotherapy interns know whether the posture of the individual case, the fixed position of the limbs are appropriate, the resistance given and whether the verbal instruction is correct, and based on the evaluation outcomes to observe the students' learning status and clinical thinking ability can improve the skill performance and learning satisfaction.

Methods: A parallel-group design. Ninety physiotherapy interns from a medical institution were enrolled as participants, with practice and videos feedback groups each comprising 45 participants. Two groups received traditional core course. The practice group received an additional 20 minutes of practice course. However, the videos feedback group received an additional 20 minutes of recording the self-practicing videos, the teacher uses observation and feedback learning of evaluation skills to improve the performance of physical therapy interns.The Direct Observation of Procedural Skills, Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise, Objective structured clinical examination, and satisfaction questionnaire were used in a pretest, posttest and the follow-up test.The inclusion criteria was being older than 20 years.Students were excluded if they could not complete the questionnaire.