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383 undergraduate gynaecology students from three Indian medical colleges participated in a cluster-randomized trial comparing three anatomy instruction modalities. The dataset includes primary outcome assessments of surgical anatomy performance and cognitive load ratings during an operative interpretation task. The study was authored by Mohammed Ismail-Khan and published on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Compare the effectiveness of cadaveric, digital, and slide-based anatomy instruction based on student performance scores.
• Analyze the relationship between instructional modality and intrinsic, extraneous, and germane cognitive load based on questionnaire ratings.
• Conduct a cost-consequence analysis of different educational resources based on the provided per-student costs.
• Investigate the impact of representational dimensionality on knowledge transfer to surgical interpretation tasks.

Strengths

• Data originates from a multi-centre, three-arm, cluster-randomized controlled trial involving 400 students.
• Primary outcomes include a 14-item surgical anatomy assessment and a validated cognitive load questionnaire.
• Analysis used linear mixed models to account for clustering, and reported effect sizes were moderate-to-large.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 25.4 KB DOCX file; the specific data structure, columns, and row counts are unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data reflects a specific population of undergraduate medical students in India, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Data collected as part of a multi-centre, cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 04:38:52; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Three medical colleges in India.