DOI: 10.18710/o1zoq0
title: Replication Data for: Extracurricular work experience and its association with training and confidence in emergency medicine procedures among medical students: a cross-sectional study from a Norwegian medical school

description: &lt;p&gt;The dataset contains answers from a questionnaire distributed to all medical students at UiT as well as first year graduates from November 2019 to February 2020. The purpose of the questionnaire was to investigate how the UiT Medical students acquire practical competence in emergency medicine-related skills, and to investigate whether students with extracurricular healthcare-related work experience had more training and confidence in such skills than students without such experience.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;Data such as ECHR work experience (yes, no) and workplace, work length (&lt;6 months, 6 months-1 year, 1-3 years, &gt;3 years), work hours (&lt;10h, 10-100h, 101-200h, 201-300h, 301-500h, &gt;500h) and number of workplaces (1, &gt;1), as well as year of study (years 1-6 and first year graduates), previous healthcare-related education (no, commenced but unfinished, finished), previous military medic-training (no, basic, advanced), and number of TAMS events participated in (0, 1, 2-5, 6-10, &gt;10) were recorded as well, and included in the data analysis as predictors and confounders.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;Several items probing amount of training as well as confidence level for the respective procedures were created as well, as Likert-based items. The alternatives for training amount were 0, 1-5, 6-10, 11-30, &gt;30 times for most items, however, for some, training amount in practice (0, 1-5, 6-10, 11-30, &gt;30 times) and real-life situations (0, 1, 2-5, 6-10, &gt;10) were probed separately. Confidence level was probed as degree of agreement, from strongly disagree to strongly agree.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of the dataset, variables from calculations of the data are included, such as median, mean and sum of the variables addressing training amount and confidence level, respectively. These composite scores were applied for statistical analyses.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Abstract
Objectives: To study the association between medical students' extracurricular healthcare-related (ECHR) work experience and their self-reported practical experience and confidence in selected emergency medicine procedures.
Study design: Cross-sectional study.
Materials and methods: Medical students and first-year graduates were invited to answer a Likert-based questionnaire probing self-reported practical experience and confidence with selected emergency medicine procedures. Participants also reported ECHR work experience, year of study, previous healthcare-related education, military medic-training and participation in the local student association for emergency medicine (TAMS). Differences within the variables were analyzed with independent samples t-tests, and correlation between training and confidence was calculated. Analysis of covariance and mixed models were applied to study associations between training and confidence, and work experience (primary outcomes) and the other reported factors (secondary outcomes) respectively. Cohen’s D was applied to better illustrate the strength of association for primary outcomes.
Results: 539 participants responded (70%). Among these, 81% had ECHR work experience. There was a strong correlation (r=0.878) between training and confidence. Work experience accounted for 5.9% and 3.5% of the total variance in training and confidence (primary outcomes), and respondents with work experience scored significantly higher than respondents without work experience. Year of study, previous education, military medic-training and TAMS-participation accounted for 49.3% and 58.5%, 8.7% and 5.1%, 6.8% and 4.7%, and 23.6% and 12.3% of the total variance in training and confidence respectively (secondary outcomes). Cohen’s D was 0.48 for training amount and 0.32 for confidence level, suggesting medium and weak-medium sized associations to work experience, respectively.
Conclusions: ECHR work experience is common among medical students, and was associated with more training and higher confidence in the investigated procedures. Significant associations were also seen between training and confidence, and year of study, previous healthcare-related education and TAMS participation, but military medic-training showed no association.
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