Future visions for medical education, the importance of public health themes in education and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Ghazal Asswad ◽  
N Fundano ◽  
S Holm ◽  
H Khan ◽  
A Petráková
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Future Improvement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Vision ◽  
Future Visions

Abstract Steps for the future improvement of competencies evaluation and fulfilment were studied, with the eventual goal of the unification of guidelines internationally to ensure the standardisation and uniformity of the quality of medical education. The future vision for the integration of public health into medical education curriculums, highlighting the importance of public health in medical education and its application in a wide variety of situations across medical education and beyond in practise as a medical professional in a range of specialities. The need for ways to increase engagement of medical students within public health issues will also be discussed.

scholarly journals In the pursuit of equity: COVID-19, data and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Kalinda Griffiths ◽  
Ian Ring ◽  
Richard Madden ◽  
Lisa Jackson Pulver
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Pandemic Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Torres Strait

Since March 2020 in Australia, there has been decisive national, and state and territory policy as well as community led action involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as information about COVID-19 arose. This has resulted in, what could only be framed as a success story in self-determination. However, there continues to be issues with the quality of data used for the surveillance and reporting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the pandemic. This article discusses some of the important events in pandemic planning regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and how this relates to surveillance and monitoring in the emerging and ongoing threat of COVID-19 within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The authors also identify some of the data considerations required in the future to monitor and address public health.

The Medical School Marketplace, c.1850–1900

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Bedside Teaching ◽  
Student Behaviour ◽  
Irish Medical

The early nineteenth century has been frequently hailed as the ‘golden age of Irish medicine’ as result of the work of physicians Robert Graves and William Stokes, whose emphasis on bedside teaching earned fame for the Meath Hospital where they were based. However, by the 1850s and for much of the nineteenth century, Irish medical education had fallen into ill-repute. Irish schools were plagued by economic difficulties, poor conditions, sham certificate system, night lectures and grinding, all of these affected student experience in different ways. Furthermore, intense competition between medical schools meant that students wielded a great deal of power as consumers. Irish students had a remarkable amount of freedom with regard to their education and qualifications. As the medical profession became increasingly professionalised, student behaviour improved but disturbances and protests in relation to professional matters or standards of education replaced earlier rowdiness. The nineteenth century also witnessed complaints by medical students about the quality of the education they were receiving, resulting, for example, in a series of visitations to Queen’s College Cork and Queen’s College Galway. This chapter highlights these distinctive aspects of Irish medical education while illustrating the power of Irish students in the period as consumers.

Clinical Audit Platform for Students (CAPS): a pilot study

2020 ◽  
pp. postgradmedj-2020-138426
Author(s):  
Prakrit Raj Kumar ◽  
Yousuf Hashmi ◽  
Raimand Morad ◽  
Varun Dewan
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Clinical Audit ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
The Future

BackgroundA clinical audit measures specific clinical outcomes or processes against a predefined standard. However, many clinicians are unable to carry out audits given their time constraints. Alternatively, medical students may often wish to complete audits early in their career to strengthen their portfolios. As such, the student clinical audit platform was designed to connect willing supervisors and these medical students.MethodsProject supervisors were members of a regional trainee-led network. Interested students were familiarised with the various aspects of an audit and allocated to supervisors with similar interests. There was regular communication to track progress and anonymised feedback forms were distributed to all students and supervisors after a year.ResultsA total of 17 responses were received from the 19 students who were involved in a project. Based on a 5-point Likert scale, students displayed a mean improvement in their understanding of a clinical audit (1.18±1.07, p<0.001), the confidence to approach a supervisor (1.29±1.21, p<0.001) and the ability to conduct an audit by themselves in the future (1.77±1.15, p<0.001). Of the seven affiliated supervisors, five provided feedback with 80% indicating they had projects which remained inactive and all happy with the quality of work produced by their students.ConclusionDespite limitations to this programme, the platform produced projects which were disseminated both locally and nationally, demonstrating positive collaboration between medical students and clinicians. We present our findings and evaluations to encourage similar audit platforms to be adopted at other locations.

scholarly journals Medical Students in a Talking Circle: the Popular Extension Dialogues with Potiguara Indigenous People

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willian Fernandes Luna ◽  
Aline Barreto de Almeida Nordi ◽  
Karolina Saad Rached ◽  
Marcella Barros Alencar Correia ◽  
Alice Ribeiro Viana de Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Talking Circle ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Doctor

Abstract: Introduction: University extension projects with socially excluded populations can be a strategy for the training of professionals in the cultural and social diversity of the Brazilian population. The practice of Popular Health Education (PHE) through university extension is one of the possibilities to foster dialogic interactions between teaching and the community and has been a space for the development of health education with social commitment. The Îandé Gûatá Extension Project was created in Paraíba in 2013, based on the principles of PHE and Popular Extension, focusing on the meeting between Potiguara indigenous people and Medical students. This study aimed to evaluate the learning built by this project students’ for their medical education. Method: Therefore, a qualitative approach research was developed through the analysis of discursive practices, using the talking circle technique at the end of the project cycle. To analyze the material, linguistic repertoires were identified from the subjects’ speech and three sets of meanings were built: extension university as a counter-hegemonic space of medical education; building skills for the future doctor; relations between health and culture in care. The linguistic repertoires were discussed based on theoretical references, such as popular health education, indigenous health and competences in medical education. Results: According to the students, this project allowed them gains in the attributes of: knowledge, as it allowed reflections, identification of gaps and greater understanding about the health-disease process in the context of the indigenous population; allowed gains in the ability of making and receiving criticism, teamwork and dialogue between different cultures; and allowed gains in attitudes, broadening the attitude of professionalism, the comprehension and performance on ethical issues and the construction of social commitment. Conclusion: Therefore, they highlight both the development of general competences for the future doctor, but also more specific ones, such as cultural competence. Moreover, the challenge of dialoguing in the polarity: aiming to reduce the distances within the same institutional space; cultural conflicts; and understanding and acting in an emancipatory education. This group of students wished, with the indigenous community, that these distances would be lessened, in a collective commitment aimed at producing change and social transformation.

scholarly journals Critical Reflection on Own Beliefs for Cultural Competence in Medical Education: an Analysis of Tutors’ Reflective Narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Costas S Constantinou ◽  
Panayiota Andreou ◽  
Alexia Papageorgiou ◽  
Peter McCrorie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Clinical Communication

Critical reflection on own beliefs, within the context of cultural competence, has been acknowledged as an important skill doctors and medical students should have in order to enhance the quality of health care regardless of patients’ social and cultural background. Yet the guidelines for teaching students critical reflection on their own cultural beliefs are lacking. Based on the method of investigating short reflective narratives and Gibbs’ reflective cycle for development, this paper explores the experience of clinical communication tutors’ in examining cultural competence in OSCEs, how they felt, analyzed and concluded, and examines their account on how to construct a training model for dealing with such challenge in medical education.

scholarly journals Improving the quality of care and medical education by involving medical students in providing patient education: a scoping review

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Thomas Willem Vijn ◽  
Cornelia R.M.G. Fluit ◽  
Jan A.M. Kremer ◽  
Marjan J. Faber ◽  
Hub Wollersheim
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Patient Education ◽  
Scoping Review
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