A study conducted at Heidelberg University Hospital tracked final-year medical students' task performance and team integration over eight-week ward rotations. Students acted as ward physicians for two weeks, performing all patient care activities under supervision. The dataset includes raw and prepared data alongside RMarkdown scripts for analysis.
Use Cases
- Analyze the diversity of clinical tasks performed by students based on the weekly self-reported frequency data (rarely/regularly/often).
- Compare student and supervisor perceptions of team integration based on the weekly survey responses from both groups.
- Evaluate the impact of a two-week intensive 'ward physician' role on learning outcomes versus standard training weeks.
- Model the development of clinical competence over time using the longitudinal eight-week study structure.
Strengths
- Includes both raw and prepared data alongside reproducible RMarkdown analysis scripts.
- Data collection is structured around a clear eight-week intervention with defined two-week and six-week phases.
- Captures perspectives from both medical students and supervising ward physicians on team integration.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analyses.
- Data is from a single training ward at one university hospital, which may limit generalizability.
Provenance
- Source
- heiDATA Harvested Dataverse, author Dönnhoff, Ivo.
- Collection Method
- Surveys administered weekly to medical students and supervising ward physicians during an eight-week training program.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-12 07:10:13; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany.