Medical Student Self-Assessment of Health Education Competency in Brazil

A 2014 study surveyed 524 medical student interns from four schools in Minas Gerais, Brazil, using a questionnaire based on the National Curriculum Guidelines. The cross-sectional analytical study assessed student self-evaluations across three key competency areas in Health Education. The dataset was authored by Frantchesca Fripp dos Santos and is available via paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Analyze self-reported competency levels in 'Individual and Collective Learning Needs Identification' based on student demographics.
• Investigate associations between a positive Primary Health Care experience and self-rated performance in 'Knowledge Construction and Socialization Promotion'.
• Compare self-assessment scores between male and female students for specific competencies like 'promotion of education actions in Women’s Health'.
• Model factors influencing self-rated performance in 'Scientific and Critical Thinking Promotion and Support for New Knowledge Production'.

Strengths

• Includes responses from 524 medical student participants.
• Provides demographic breakdowns including sex (57.0% female), age group (66.9% aged 21-25), and academic year (65.3% final year).
• Reports specific self-assessment percentages for competencies, such as 69.0% rating themselves 'very good' at 'learning with interprofessional relationships'.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Cross-sectional analytical study using a questionnaire based on the National Curriculum Guidelines.

Time Range

Study conducted around 2014 (publication year of referenced guidelines).

Geography

Four medical schools in Minas Gerais, Brazil.