Medical Education Electives Can Promote Teaching and Research Interests Among Medical Students

IF 1.8 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Advances in Medical Education and Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI:10.2147/amep.s453964

Sateesh B Arja, Sireesha Bala Arja, Kumar Ponnusamy, Praveen Kottath Veetil, Simi Paramban, Yoshita Chandru Laungani

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Introduction: Although all residents routinely teach medical students, not all residents are involved in teaching or trained in teaching during undergraduate medical school, as accreditation bodies do not mandate the promotion of teaching skills to undergraduate medical students. With relatively inadequate formal training and residents’ intrinsic time constraints, tactically incorporating formal medical education elective experiences in medical school curricula is understandable. This study explores if medical education electives at Avalon University School of Medicine (AUSOM) can enhance medical students’ interest in teaching and research.
Methods: The medical education elective at AUSOM was developed to give interested medical students an elective experience. The course modules include accreditation/regulation, curriculum development, learning theories, assessments, and research methodology. Students can choose any one of the modules. We offered the medical education elective to twenty-five students in the year 2021. All of them gave feedback at the end of the elective. The data was analyzed qualitatively through framework analysis, which includes familiarization, generating initial codes, searching for themes, reviewing, and defining and naming themes.
Results: Different themes emerged, enhancing the interest in academic medicine, understanding research methodologies, supporting learners, and awareness of learning theories.
Conclusion: Doing medical education electives at AUSOM enhanced students’ interest in teaching, and students reported that they could understand research methodologies, especially those related to medical education. Medical students should have opportunities for electives in medical education, and more research is required to evaluate the effectiveness of medical education electives across medical schools.

Keywords: medical education, electives, medical educational research, medical educators, health science students

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