The investigation of the educational needs on the job competence for physical therapist assistant in the students of Quang Tri medical college in Vietnam.
Jin-Won Noh, Beom Seok Park, Eun Joo Kim and 1 others
PMID 30568329WHAT IT FOUND
17 Vietnamese physical therapist assistant students identified counseling and education as the highest educational need, even though they rated it least important, because self-assessed current level was lowest.
Key findings
01Counseling and education had the highest educational needs score, 5.21, and was ranked first.
02The next highest educational needs were prognosis and treatment plan and system checkup.
03Students rated counseling and education as the lowest importance subfactor, 4.21, and the lowest current level, 2.98.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for PTs
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What it does not show
Only 17 students from one college were surveyed, so the rankings may not apply to other physical therapist assistant programs or to practising therapists. The results are self-assessments of importance and current competence, not observed clinical performance or patient outcomes. The study did not test an educational intervention, so it cannot show that changing the curriculum would improve competence or care.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that counseling and education training improves patient care. It reports self-rated training needs from 17 students, not a treatment trial or patient outcome study.