Developing Physical Therapy Students’Medical Report Writing Skills During COVID-19: A TPACK Based ESP Course

Abstract

The research examined the effect of a TPACK based ESP course on developing physical therapy students’ medical reports writing skills during the COVID 19 Pandemic. The quasi-experimental design was used. There were 100 freshmen randomly selected from the Basic Science Department at Faculty of Physical Therapy in Kafrel-Shikh University. Participants were divided into a control group and an experimental one, each group consisted of 50. Both groups answered the needs analysis questionnaire which revealed the participants’ needs to study medical reports writing skills. Then, the groups answered the Medical Report Writing Test, developed by the researchers before and after the course administration. The experimental group received a TPACK based modified version of the Medical Terms Course, while the control one received the course traditionally.The Medical Terms Coursewas the only ESP course introduced to Physical Therapy in Kafrel-Shikh University.Results of the post administration of the test revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control one in the medical reports writing test. The effect size for the TPACK based ESP course on the medical reports writing skills was large (d=3.176).