{"title":"Evaluation of an Innovative Medical Student Course Integrating Medicine and Public Health.","authors":"Isha Jain, Parvathy Pillai, Patrick L Remington","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Educating medical students about the importance of integrating public health into their careers is challenging.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Medical student demographics, weekly written reflections, and course evaluations for a storytelling-based, public health-oriented elective were reviewed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to students who did not enroll in the course, enrolled students were more likely to be female (71% vs 48%, P = 0.001). Student reflections revealed 2 major themes: (1) public health can be integrated into any specialty career; (2) career paths are often nonlinear. Students were highly satisfied with the course (mean 6.5, scale 1-7).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Courses aiming to inspire medical students to integrate public health into their career should consider a similar storytelling approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":94268,"journal":{"name":"WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin","volume":"124 2","pages":"165-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Introduction: Educating medical students about the importance of integrating public health into their careers is challenging.
Methods: Medical student demographics, weekly written reflections, and course evaluations for a storytelling-based, public health-oriented elective were reviewed.
Results: Compared to students who did not enroll in the course, enrolled students were more likely to be female (71% vs 48%, P = 0.001). Student reflections revealed 2 major themes: (1) public health can be integrated into any specialty career; (2) career paths are often nonlinear. Students were highly satisfied with the course (mean 6.5, scale 1-7).
Discussion: Courses aiming to inspire medical students to integrate public health into their career should consider a similar storytelling approach.
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