• Matthieu Schmidt, Yonathan Freund, Mickael Alves, Antoine Monsel, Vincent Labbe, Elsa Darnal, Jonathan Messika, Jerome Bokobza, Thomas Similowski, and Alexandre Duguet.
• Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 1158 "Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique", Paris F-75005, France. matthieuschmidt@yahoo.fr.
• BMC Med Educ. 2014 May 22; 14: 103.

BackgroundOral presentations of clinical cases by medical students during medical rounds in hospital wards are a source of anxiety and little is known about how this anxiety can be alleviated. The objective of this study was to investigate whether video-based feedback of public oral presentations can reduce anxiety in 4th year medical students.MethodsMulticentre randomized study conducted in six intensive care units (ICU) and emergency departments (ED) in France over a 9-month period in 2012. One hundred and forty two 4th year medical students were randomized to two groups: intervention and control. Students in the intervention group were recorded while making an oral presentation of a patient during morning ward rounds, followed by video-based feedback. Students in the control group conducted presented classical oral presentations without being filmed and with no formal feedback. Anxiety levels during a public oral presentation were assessed using the Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S). The primary outcome was the difference in STAI-S scores between groups at the beginning and at the end of a 3-month ICU or ED internship.ResultsSeventy four students were randomized to the 'video-based feedback' group and 68 were randomized to the control group. In both groups, STAI-S scores were significantly lower after 3 months of internship. However, the reduction in STAI-S scores was significantly greater in the "video-based feedback" group than in controls (-9.2 ± 9.3 vs. -4.6 ± 8.2, p = 0.024. Compared to the control group, significantly fewer students with high-level anxiety were observed in the "video-based feedback" group after 3 months of internship (68 vs. 28%, p <0.001).ConclusionsCompared to "usual practice", video-assisted oral feedback reduced anxiety and significantly decreased the proportion of students experiencing severe anxiety.

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