Convergence of Explanation Meeting in Cadaveric Dissection with Communication Skill Correlation between Self evaluation Factor and Academic Achievement of Medical Students
This study aimed to evaluate correlation between self evaluation factors and academic achievement of medical students according to introduction of explanation meeting in cadaveric dissection. The students explained cadaveric structure to health allied sciences students and discussed with each other. Just after the meeting, 102 medical students filled out a self reported questionnaire on impact of self evaluation factors and communication. The data were analyzed by frequency analysis, t test and analysis of variance. Regardless of their gender, age, previous experience, the majority of the students gave high scores in all of self evaluation factors. Among them, linkage with major and verbal communication factor were closely related to their academic achievement(p<0.05) The verbal and non verbal communication factors also had a high correlation of 0.580(p<0.01) The explanation meeting provided a chance to learn further with positive attitude to medical students and motivated them academically.