Nina Mazze, Orianna Mak, Sureka Pavalagantharajah, Andrea Hunter
{"title":"An evaluation of a Transition to Foundations curriculum for first year pediatric residents in Competency Based Medical Education","authors":"Nina Mazze, Orianna Mak, Sureka Pavalagantharajah, Andrea Hunter","doi":"10.36834/cmej.77525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.77525","url":null,"abstract":"Implication Statement A Transition to Foundations (TTF) curriculum that includes didactic and simulation components prepares first-year pediatric residents for increased roles and responsibilities in the Foundations of Discipline stage of Competency Based Medical Education, including junior night float rotations. Simulations of acute presentations improve resident comfort before overnight on-call experiences.","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139276911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mars Zhao, Shayan Shirazi, K. Trinder, Tamara Hominuke, Ruddy Ginger, Greg Malin, Meredith McKague
{"title":"A student-led clerkship primer: a near-peer orientation to clerkship","authors":"Mars Zhao, Shayan Shirazi, K. Trinder, Tamara Hominuke, Ruddy Ginger, Greg Malin, Meredith McKague","doi":"10.36834/cmej.76866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.76866","url":null,"abstract":"Implication Statement The transition between pre-clerkship and clerkship can be difficult for medical students. Near-peer teaching may fill knowledge gaps within curricular clerkship orientation, leveraging recent, relatable, and up-to-date experiences from near-peers. These benefits have not been formally evaluated in the context of a clerkship orientation. We therefore created the Clerkship Primer, a near-peer teaching initiative that aimed to introduce incoming clerks to clerkship through a curricular session facilitated exclusively by senior clerkship students. Sessions had high satisfaction among students. This pilot project suggests that curricular near-peer teaching is a valuable component of clerkship orientation.","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139276491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irene Chang, Laurie Yang, Asiana Elma, Stacey A Ritz, Lawrence Grierson
{"title":"A brief report of aspiring medical student perceptions and behaviours concerning research experiences for selection into Canadian medical schools.","authors":"Irene Chang, Laurie Yang, Asiana Elma, Stacey A Ritz, Lawrence Grierson","doi":"10.36834/cmej.76255","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.76255","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Aspiring medical students behave based on their perception of what is valued in the selection process. While research experience is not explicitly considered in most Canadian admissions policies, it is commonly held as valuable within aspiring medical student communities. The purpose of this study is to describe the perceptions and behaviours of aspiring medical students with respect to gaining research experience in support of their medical school applications.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We surveyed prospective applicants of Canadian medical schools between August 2021 and November 2021, then compiled descriptive statistics pertaining to their perceptions and behaviours.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Respondents affirmed the belief that research experience is valued in medical school admissions processes. They reported spending approximately 13 hours per week engaged in research, which usually did not yield publication or presentation recognition.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Aspiring medical students invest substantial time and energy in research experiences to benefit their applications. There is room for medical schools to be more transparent about the value of research experience in their admissions processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689996/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45802931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some perspectives on designing effective serious games.","authors":"Safaa El Bialy, Ibrahim Mohammad","doi":"10.36834/cmej.75475","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.75475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689990/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41555296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"See you at ICAM in Vancouver, April 2024!","authors":"Marcel F D'Eon","doi":"10.36834/cmej.78350","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.78350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689998/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138479708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to help the unmatched medical student.","authors":"Amit Rl Persad","doi":"10.36834/cmej.77419","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.77419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10690003/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42457624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demonstrating the importance of interprofessional health education through an interactive case competition at Queen's Faculty of Health Sciences.","authors":"Ishita Aggarwal, Alanna Jane, Rupa Patel","doi":"10.36834/cmej.74623","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.74623","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On March 4, 2021, OSLER Kingston and KHealth, student-run organizations at Queen's Faculty of Health Sciences, hosted a two-hour-long virtual interprofessional case competition called \"OSLER x KHealth IPR Case Competition: Homelessness,\" focusing on housing insecurity and homelessness. This event demonstrated that integrating interprofessional education (IPE) competencies into educational experiences of health professional students is feasible to organize and implement while also being valuable. Students who participated found IPE to be helpful for their learning. Consequently, we encourage medical school curriculum leaders and student-led groups to prioritize IPE in their preclerkship curricular and extracurricular offerings.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689997/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43995603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Updated data on test accommodations on the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam Part I, 2013-2021.","authors":"Quinten K Clarke, Julia E Hanes","doi":"10.36834/cmej.77805","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.77805","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689993/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43151519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steffane McLennan, Kieran Purich, Kevin Verhoeff, Brett Mador
{"title":"Attitudes of Canadian medical students towards surgical training and perceived barriers to surgical careers: a multicentre survey.","authors":"Steffane McLennan, Kieran Purich, Kevin Verhoeff, Brett Mador","doi":"10.36834/cmej.74694","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.74694","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Medical student interest in surgical specialties continues to decline. This study aims to characterize attitudes of Canadian medical students towards surgical training and perceived barriers to surgical careers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An anonymous survey was custom designed and distributed to medical students at the University of Alberta and University of Calgary. Survey questions characterized student interest in surgical specialties, barriers to pursuing surgery, and influence of surgical education opportunities on career interest.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Survey engagement was 26.7% in 2015 and 24.2% in 2021. General surgery had the highest rate of interest in both survey years (2015: 38.3%, 2021: 39.2%). The most frequently reported barrier was worry about the stress that surgical careers can put on personal relationships (2015: 70.9%, 2021: 73.8%, <i>p</i>= 0.50). Female respondents were significantly more likely to cite gender discrimination as a deterrent to surgical careers (F: 52.0%, M: 5.8%, <i>p</i> < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Despite substantial interest, perception of work-life imbalance was the primary reported barrier to surgical careers. Further, female medical students' awareness of gender discrimination in surgery highlights the need for continued efforts to promote gender inclusivity within surgical disciplines to support early career women interested in surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10690001/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46374864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Darren Nichols, Jim Cockell, Daniel Lemoine, Jill Konkin
{"title":"The Rural Integrated Community Clerkship: a vital stretch in the Alberta rural physician workforce pipeline.","authors":"Darren Nichols, Jim Cockell, Daniel Lemoine, Jill Konkin","doi":"10.36834/cmej.73944","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.73944","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Longitudinal integrated clerkships are thought to operate synergistically with factors such as rural background and practice intent to determine medical graduates' practice types and locations-sometimes known as the pipeline effect. We examined the influence of the rural integrated community clerkship (ICC) at the University of Alberta on students choosing family medicine and rural practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We completed a retrospective cohort analysis of graduates from 2009-2016. The cohort was cross-referenced by background, type of clerkship, practice type and practice location. We used χ2 analyses and risk ratios to measure the relative likelihood that ICC students would settle on rural practice and/or family medicine.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>ICC participation had more influence than rural background on students' choice of rural and/or family practice, and both factors were synergistic. Rotation-based clerkship students were least likely to enter family medicine or rural practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The ICC is a clerkship model that influences students to become rural and/or family physicians, regardless of their rural/urban origins. The ICC diverts rural-interested students into rural practice and protects rural-origin students from ending up in urban practice. Expanding ICC infrastructure, including sustaining the rural physician workforce, will benefit rural Alberta communities by increasing the numbers of UA graduates in rural practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10689994/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43760102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}