Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2412398
Jacob Gorm Davidsen, Dorthe Vinter Larsen, Sten Rasmussen, Lucas Paulsen
{"title":"Collaborative 360° virtual reality training of medical students in clinical examinations.","authors":"Jacob Gorm Davidsen, Dorthe Vinter Larsen, Sten Rasmussen, Lucas Paulsen","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2412398","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2412398","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Simulation-based training in computer-generated environments has always played an important role in clinical medical education. Recently, there has been a growing interest in using 360° videos of real-life situations for training in health professions. Several studies report positive results from using 360° Virtual Reality for individuals, yet there are currently no studies on collaborative 360° Virtual Reality training. In this paper, we evaluate how 360° Virtual Reality can support collaborative training in clinical medical education. The study population consisted of 14 medical students in semester 5 of their Bachelor's programme. The students were divided into three groups before watching and annotating a 360° video of an authentic learning situation inside a collaborative immersive virtual reality space. The original video shows a problem-based examination of the collateral and cruciate ligaments of the knee performed by students under the supervision of a professor. After training in collaborative 360° Virtual Reality, students then had to perform the same tests in a physical examination. The students' performance was subsequently evaluated by a professor with expertise in knee examinations. The results show that 12 out of 14 students received a score of 2 for one or more tests, thereby meeting the required learning objective. One student received a score of 1 and one student did not perform any of the tests. The students actively use the tools provided by the software and different communicative strategies when working collaboratively in 360° Virtual Reality, which enables them to perform the tests in the physical examination by transferring their constructed knowledge. The results indicate that our pedagogical design in collaborative immersive 360° Virtual Reality can become a relevant addition to face-to-face clinical medical training.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2412398"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11451289/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142373235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2385693
Alicia Gonzalez-Flores, Mark C Henderson, Zachary Holt, Hillary Campbell, Maya R London, Maria Garnica Albor, Tonya L Fancher
{"title":"Accelerated competency-based education in primary care (ACE-PC): a 3-year UC Davis and Kaiser permanente partnership to meet California's primary care physician workforce needs.","authors":"Alicia Gonzalez-Flores, Mark C Henderson, Zachary Holt, Hillary Campbell, Maya R London, Maria Garnica Albor, Tonya L Fancher","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2385693","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2385693","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Problem: </strong>Our nation faces an urgent need for more primary care (PC) physicians, yet interest in PC careers is dwindling. Students from underrepresented in medicine (UIM) backgrounds are more likely to choose PC and practice in underserved areas yet their representation has declined. Accelerated PC programs have the potential to address workforce needs, lower educational debt, and diversify the physician workforce to advance health equity.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>With support from Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) and the American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative, University of California School of Medicine (UC Davis) implemented the Accelerated Competency-based Education in Primary Care (ACE-PC) program - a six-year pathway from medical school to residency for students committed to health equity and careers in family medicine or PC-internal medicine. ACE-PC accepts 6-10 students per year using the same holistic admissions process as the 4-year MD program with an additional panel interview that includes affiliated residency program faculty from UC Davis and KPNC. The undergraduate curriculum features: PC continuity clinic with a single preceptor throughout medical school; a 9-month longitudinal integrated clerkship; supportive PC faculty and culture; markedly reduced student debt with full-tuition scholarships; weekly PC didactics; and clinical rotations in affiliated residency programs with the opportunity to match into specific ACE-PC residency tracks.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>Since 2014, 70 students have matriculated to ACE-PC, 71% from UIM groups, 64% are first-generation college students. Of the graduates, 48% have entered residency in family medicine and 52% in PC-internal medicine. In 2020, the first graduates entered the PC workforce; all are practicing in California, including 66% at federally qualified health centers, key providers of underserved care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2385693"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11312997/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141907941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2391631
Yan Jiang, Yan Cai, Xue Zhang, Cong Wang
{"title":"Interprofessional education interventions for healthcare professionals to improve patient safety: a scoping review.","authors":"Yan Jiang, Yan Cai, Xue Zhang, Cong Wang","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2391631","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2391631","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Patient safety incidents, such as adverse events and medical errors, are often caused by ineffective communication and collaboration. Interprofessional education is an effective method for promoting collaborative competencies and has attracted great attention in the context of patient safety. However, the effectiveness of interprofessional education interventions on patient safety remains unclear. This scoping review aimed to synthesize existing studies that focused on improving patient safety through interprofessional education interventions for healthcare professionals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Six databases, including Medline (via PubMed), Embase, Cochrane Library, CINAHL (via EBSCO), Scopus and Web of Science, were last searched on 20 December 2023. The search records were independently screened by two researchers. The Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tool for Quasi-Experimental Studies was used for quality appraisal. The data were extracted by two researchers and cross-checked. Finally, a narrative synthesis was performed. The protocol for this scoping review was not registered.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirteen quasi-experimental studies with moderate methodological quality were included. The results revealed that the characteristics of current interprofessional education interventions were diverse, with a strong interest in simulation-based learning strategies and face-to-face delivery methods. Several studies did not assess the reduction in patient safety incidents involving adverse events or medical errors, relying instead on the improvements in healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitude or practice related to patient safety issues. Less than half of the studies examined team performance, based primarily on the self-evaluation of healthcare professionals and observer-based evaluation. There is a gap in applying newer tools such as peer evaluation and team-based objective structured clinical evaluation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Additional evidence on interprofessional education interventions for improving patient safety is needed by further research, especially randomized controlled trials. Facilitating simulation-based interprofessional education, collecting more objective outcomes of patient safety and selecting suitable tools to evaluate teamwork performance may be the focus of future studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2391631"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11351354/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2023.2295049
Amber Cahill, Matthew Martin, Bridget Beachy, David Bauman, Jordan Howard-Young
{"title":"The contextual interview: a cross-cutting patient-interviewing approach for social context.","authors":"Amber Cahill, Matthew Martin, Bridget Beachy, David Bauman, Jordan Howard-Young","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2023.2295049","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2023.2295049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient interviewing pedagogy in medical education has not evolved to comprehensively capture the biopsychosocial model of healthcare delivery. While gathering a patient's social history targets important aspects of social context it does not adequately capture and account for the real-time reassessment required to understand evolving factors that influence exposure to drivers of health inequities, social determinants of health, and access to supports that promote health. The authors offer a patient interviewing approach called the <i>Contextual Interview (CI)</i> that specifically targets dynamic and ever-changing social context information. To substantiate the use of the CI in medical education, the authors conducted a qualitative review of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Milestones for primary care specialties (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics). Milestones were coded to the extent to which they reflected the learner's need to acknowledge, assess, synthesize and/or apply patient contextual data in real-time patient encounters. Approximately 1 in 5 milestones met the context-related and patient-facing criteria. This milestone review further highlights the need for more intentional training in eliciting meaningful social context data during patient interviewing. The CI as a cross-cutting, practical, time-conscious, and semi-structured patient interviewing approach that deliberately elicits information to improve the clinician's sense and understanding of a patient's social context. The authors reviewed future directions in researching adapted versions of the CI for undergraduate and graduate medical education.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2295049"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10848999/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139698563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2312713
Shahpar Najmabadi, Virginia Valentin, Joanne Rolls, Mary Showstark, Leigh Elrod, Carey Barry, Adam Broughton, Michael Bessette, Trenton Honda
{"title":"Non-native English-speaking applicants and the likelihood of physician assistant program matriculation.","authors":"Shahpar Najmabadi, Virginia Valentin, Joanne Rolls, Mary Showstark, Leigh Elrod, Carey Barry, Adam Broughton, Michael Bessette, Trenton Honda","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2312713","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2312713","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Effective communication is critical in patient care. Multilingual medical providers, including Physician Assistants (PAs) can contribute to improved health care among patients with limited English proficiency; however, this is contingent upon matriculating multilingual providers. In this study, the association between prospective applicants' self-reported English as second language (ESL) status and their likelihood of matriculation into a PA program was investigated.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants included applicants to five admission cycles of the Centralized Application Service for Physician Assistant from 2012 to 2020. Logistic regression was utilized to investigate association between applicant ESL status and odds of program matriculation in both bivariate and multivariable regression models. Models were adjusted for citizenship status, undergraduate grade point average, gender, age, race/ethnicity, number of programs applied to, and patient care hours.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In unadjusted and adjusted models, ESL status was associated with a significantly lower odds of matriculation to a PA program across all study years. In adjusted multivariable models, associations were strongest for 2014-2015 where ESL status was associated with a 35% lower odds of matriculation (odds ratio 0.65, 95% confidence interval 0.56, 0.76) when controlling for demographics, citizenship status, patient care experience, and academic achievement. In sensitivity analyses restricting to (a) those with TOEFL scores ≥ 100, and (b) restricting to those ESL applicants without TOEFL scores, we did not observe important changes in our results.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results indicated that non-native English-speaking applicants have lower odds of PA program matriculation. Decrements in matriculation odds were large magnitude, minimally impacted by adjustment for confounders and persistent across the years. These findings suggest that PA program admission processes may disadvantage non-native English-speaking applicants. While there are potential explanations for the observed findings, they are cause for concern. Matriculating and training PAs who have language concordance with underserved populations are important means of improving patient outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2312713"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10851801/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2363006
Guillaume Der Sahakian, Maxime de Varenne, Clément Buléon, Guillaume Alinier, Christian Balmer, Antonia Blanié, Bertrand Bech, Anne Bellot, Hamdi Boubaker, Nadège Dubois, Francisco Guevara, Erwan Guillouet, Jean-Claude Granry, Morgan Jaffrelot, François Lecomte, Fernande Lois, Mohammed Mouhaoui, Ollivier Ortolé, Méryl Paquay, Justine Piazza, Marie Pittaco, Patrick Plaisance, Dan Benhamou, Gilles Chiniara, Etienne Rivière
{"title":"The 2024 French guidelines for scenario design in simulation-based education: manikin-based immersive simulation, simulated participant-based immersive simulation and procedural simulation.","authors":"Guillaume Der Sahakian, Maxime de Varenne, Clément Buléon, Guillaume Alinier, Christian Balmer, Antonia Blanié, Bertrand Bech, Anne Bellot, Hamdi Boubaker, Nadège Dubois, Francisco Guevara, Erwan Guillouet, Jean-Claude Granry, Morgan Jaffrelot, François Lecomte, Fernande Lois, Mohammed Mouhaoui, Ollivier Ortolé, Méryl Paquay, Justine Piazza, Marie Pittaco, Patrick Plaisance, Dan Benhamou, Gilles Chiniara, Etienne Rivière","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2363006","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2363006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Simulation-based education in healthcare encompasses a wide array of modalities aimed at providing realistic clinical experiences supported by meticulously designed scenarios. The French-speaking Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SoFraSimS) has developed guidelines to assist educators in the design of scenarios for manikin- or simulated participant- based immersive simulation and procedural simulation, the three mainly used modalities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>After establishing a French-speaking group of experts within the SoFraSimS network, we performed an extensive literature review with theory-informed practices and personal experiences. We used this approach identify the essential criteria for practice-based scenario design within the three simulation modalities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We present three comprehensive templates for creating innovative scenarios and simulation sessions, each tailored to the specific characteristics of a simulation modality. The SoFraSimS templates include five sections distributed between the three modalities. The first section contextualizes the scenario by describing the practicalities of the setting, the instructors and learners, and its connection to the educational program. The second section outlines the learning objectives. The third lists all the elements necessary during the preparation phase, describing the educational method used for procedural simulation (such as demonstration, discovery, mastery learning, and deliberate practice). The fourth section addresses the simulation phase, detailing the behaviors the instructor aims to analyze, the embedded triggers, and the anticipated impact on simulation proceedings (natural feedback). This ensures maximum control over the learning experience. Finally, the fifth section compiles elements for post-simulation modifications to enhance future iterations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We trust that these guidelines will prove valuable to educators seeking to implement simulation-based education and contribute to the standardization of scenarios for healthcare students and professionals. This standardization aims to facilitate communication, comparison of practices and collaboration across different learning and healthcare institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2363006"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11164058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141285019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-03-22DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2331852
Thomas Soroski, Kuda Hove, Lisa Steblecki, Jaime C Yu
{"title":"Evaluating the domains of generalism and equity, diversity and inclusion in preclinical simulated cases for targeted curricular improvements.","authors":"Thomas Soroski, Kuda Hove, Lisa Steblecki, Jaime C Yu","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2331852","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2331852","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Simulated cases are widely used in medical education to develop clinical reasoning skills and discuss key topics around patient care. Such cases present an opportunity to demonstrate real world encounters with diverse patient and health provider identities, impacts of social and structural determinants of health, and demonstrate a generalist approach to problems. However, despite many calls-to-action for medical schools to better incorporate equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and generalism, it remains difficult to evaluate how well these goals are being met.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A quality improvement project was completed at a single medical school to evaluate the domains of generalism and EDI within simulated cases used in the preclinical curriculum. Generalism was evaluated using the Toronto Generalism Assessment Tool (T-GAT). EDI was evaluated using a locally developed novel tool. Analysis included descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 49 simulated cases were reviewed. Twelve generalism and 5 EDI items were scored on a 5-point Likert scale, with higher scores indicating better demonstration of generalism or EDI within a case. Average generalism score across all cases was 45.6/60. Average EDI score across all cases was 11.7/25. Only 21/49 cases included representation of one or more diverse identity categories. The most common diverse identity represented was non-white races/ethnicities, and the identity represented the least was diversity in language fluency. Generalism and EDI scores demonstrated a weak positive correlation (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.25).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Quantitative evaluation of simulated cases using specific generalism and EDI scoring tools was successful in generating insight into areas of improvement for teaching cases. This approach identified key content areas for case improvement and identities that are currently underrepresented in teaching cases. Similar approaches could be feasibly used by other medical schools to improve generalism and EDI in teaching cases or other curricular materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2331852"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10962297/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140186002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2333618
Ann-Kathrin Schindler, Mareike Schimmel, Melissa Oezsoy, Thomas Rotthoff
{"title":"Measuring teacher identity of physicians - a validation study of a questionnaire instrument.","authors":"Ann-Kathrin Schindler, Mareike Schimmel, Melissa Oezsoy, Thomas Rotthoff","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2333618","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2333618","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Teacher identity is defined as a continuum of a person's self-conviction ('Identity is something I have') and a context-dependent action ('Identity is something I do in a context') (Lankveld et al. 2021). It has been identified a relevant contributor to physicians' teaching commitment. In this study, we further improve the currently only existing questionnaire instrument (37 items) measuring physicians' teacher identity.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Survey data on 147 clinicians at a German university hospital were (1) analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). We tested (a) the model fits of the originally suggested scales and (b) potential for improvement of model fits by item reduction. As this could not reveal satisfactory fits for all scales, we (2) applied a principal axis factoring as an exploratory approach. Last, we combined findings from (1) and (2) with a theoretical item content discussion and suggest (3) reassembled scales which were again checked using CFA.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>(1a) Two scales from the original instrument were successfully confirmed. (1b) Some scales benefited from item reduction. (2) The exploratory analysis identified three factors that explained at least 5% variance. (3) By integrating confirmatory and exploratory findings with a content analysis of the items, we propose a partially rearranged questionnaire instrument, comprising seven scales: (1) Feeling intrinsic satisfaction from teaching; (2) Feeling responsibility to teach; (3) Exchange of teaching experience; (4) Identification and enjoyment of the teaching role; (5) Development of teaching; (6) Teaching self-concept of ability; (7) Desired rewards for teaching. Four items were kept as single items.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We suggest that when assessing teacher identity in physicians, all items should be constructed to allow for responses, even from physicians who are presently not actively involved in teaching. The scales benefited from categorizing items based on the continuum of teacher identity as outlined by van Lankveld et al. (2021).</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2333618"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10964827/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140207945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2408842
Mary A Dolansky, Elizabeth A Edmiston, Anton Vehovec, Andrew Harris, Mamta K Singh
{"title":"An interprofessional postgraduate quality improvement curriculum: results and lessons learned over a 5-year implementation.","authors":"Mary A Dolansky, Elizabeth A Edmiston, Anton Vehovec, Andrew Harris, Mamta K Singh","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2408842","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2408842","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Problem: </strong>Quality Improvement (QI) is interprofessional by nature; however, most academic QI programs occur in silos and do not leverage the opportunity to bring interprofessional learners together.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>To evaluate QI competencies of physician, nursing, pharmacy, behavioral health, and social work residents after participating in a longitudinal QI curriculum. Lessons learned are shared to guide educators in developing QI curriculum for interprofessional learners.</p><p><strong>Context: </strong>Cohorts of graduate students over 5 years participated in a QI curriculum that aligned with each professions' core quality competencies. Residents engaged in didactics and experiential learning in primary care clinics.</p><p><strong>Impact: </strong>All learners (<i>N</i> = 74) demonstrated improvement in QI knowledge measured by the QIKAT-R and applied their skills demonstrated by completion of a QI project presented at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement annual forums. Participation in QI curriculum resulted in knowledge and skill improvement.</p><p><strong>Lessons learned: </strong>An experiential QI curriculum is a natural place to bring diverse post-graduate learners together to improve QI knowledge and skills. Successful QI curriculum goals are to (a) align projects with institutional and stakeholder goals, (b) include coaches to promote teamwork and project management, (c) narrow project scope, (d) develop an improvement mindset that failures are learning opportunities, and (e) address needs for data access.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2408842"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11459751/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142382050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical Education OnlinePub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-11-04DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2024.2420440
Daniel Söderberg, Anna Kiessling, Anna Freyschuss
{"title":"Education in lifestyle medicine for future physicians - a strategy to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.","authors":"Daniel Söderberg, Anna Kiessling, Anna Freyschuss","doi":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2420440","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10872981.2024.2420440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a compelling need to improve all physicians' knowledge on lifestyle medicine (LM). This training needs to start early during medical education. This case report describes the feasibility and effects of integrating LM into an existing core curriculum of a Swedish undergraduate medical programme. A curriculum development project was organized using a six-step model: general needs assessment, targeted needs assessment, goals and objectives, educational strategies, implementation, and evaluation. New learning objectives regarding health, prevention and lifestyle medicine were formulated throughout the five-and-a-half-year programme. Learning activities and examinations were integrated in all courses with a structured progression and with focus on preventive activities in the workplace learning. The project was evaluated using student surveys of curricular quality, teacher survey of curricular content and integration in 2020, and an external review of adherence to the national qualitative target on preventive medicine. The project was executed during 2017-2018. Course evaluations and exit poll at graduation showed an overall high-quality student rating of education in prevention and in lifestyle counselling: on average, a score of 4.1/5 and 4.1/6, respectively. The teacher survey showed that over 70% of courses had a lasting increase in LM curricular content and that this content was to a large extent integrated into the existing course material. The external review concluded that the topic was well covered and integrated into the curriculum. LM could be successfully integrated into an existing medical programme curriculum with positive effects on student learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":47656,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education Online","volume":"29 1","pages":"2420440"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11548798/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}