Can interdisciplinary clinical DVD simulations transform clinical fieldwork education for paramedic, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and nursing students?
Students viewed the simulations as being educationally, professionally, and clinically relevant. The cost benefit of using DVD simulations to replace or supplement components of clinical fieldwork education should be investigated further.
Regressions using global and average clinical evaluation score indicate that average score is a better fit for a norm-based grading system. Arguably, the Shelf measures clinical knowledge more objectively than clinical evaluation, but both were significant. Clinical evaluation is prone to inflation because of its subjective nature; conceivably, inflation leads to the decreased correlation with shelf score.