According to guidelines [ 14], women who underwent a stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsy without a consecutive excision surgery routinely undergo control examinations, typically mammography guided examinations after about 6 months.
The second finding of the paper was an apparent negative impact of using objectives to guide examination preparation.
With regards to the components of the intended curriculum, the examination blueprint was used by the majority of students whereas a minority employed objectives to guide examination preparation.
This study aims to firstly describe how students utilized components of intended and informal curricula to guide examination preparation, and secondly to study the relationship between examination preparation and performance.
As demonstrated in Table 2, course objectives were used by a significantly smaller proportion of students to guide examination preparation than the evaluation blueprint, content emphasised during lectures and material emphasised during small groups.
Comparing students above and those at or below the mean examination score, there was no difference in the proportions of students using the examination blueprint (85 versus 87.9%, p = 1.0), content emphasised during lectures (90.3 versus 94.3%, p = 0.7) and content emphasised during small groups (94.6 versus 90.3%, p = 0.6) to guide examination preparation.
We found, in Table 3, that the use of course objectives to guide examination preparation was associated with reduced odds of above average performance (or increased odds of below average performance), while use of the other three components were not significantly associated with students' performance.
The choice of therapy is guided by direct examination of bacteriological samples.
Compared to the subsequent upright chest radiograph, there were 4 true-positive remotely diagnosed PTXs, 2 false-negative diagnoses, and 20 true-negative diagnoses for 66% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 92% accuracy for remotely guided chest examination.
The choice of antibiotic therapy was left to the attending physician and was guided by Gram-stained direct examination and the severity of pneumonia at the time of diagnosis.
