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 Estudantes de Medicina em Roda: os Diálogos da Extensão Popular com os Indígenas Potiguara

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 ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
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.

The (future) doctor will see you now: Piloting a longitudinal virtual patient in medical education, simulating general practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Thomas Dale MacLaine ◽  
Cornelia Juengst ◽  
David Harris ◽  
Catherine Fenn ◽  
Helen Gabathuler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Virtual Patient ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Doctor

Discussion on the Influence and Enlightenment of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Medical Students in China (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Wan ◽  
Yujie Tu ◽  
Yu Fu ◽  
Zhao Yan ◽  
Yalin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
First Line ◽  
Medical Education Reform ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas

UNSTRUCTURED COVID-19 spread in Wuhan in January 2020 and the whole country worked together to fight the epidemic. Up to now, more than 80,000 people have been diagnosed, and more than 40,000 medical staffs have assisted first-line rescue in Wuhan. As a reserve force for clinical medicine, medical students bear the heavy responsibility of future medical development. The author, as a medical student, has considered carefully about facing the present and looking forward to the future after this epidemic. The author mainly discusses about the influence of COVID-19 on medical students and its enlightenment on medical students and medical education reform in this paper, and hopes to resonate with medical students and provide some new ideas for future medical education reform.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Digital Health Education Among European Medical Students: Mixed Methods Survey (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Machleid ◽  
Robert Kaczmarczyk ◽  
Doreen Johann ◽  
Justinas Balčiūnas ◽  
Beatriz Atienza-Carbonell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Health Technologies

BACKGROUND Digital health technologies hold promise to enhance patient-related outcomes, to support health care staff by reducing their workload, and to improve the coordination of care. As key users of digital health technologies, health care workers are crucial to enable a meaningful digital transformation of health care. Digital health literacy and digital skills should become prerequisite competencies for health professionals to facilitate the implementation and leverage the potential of digital technologies to improve health. OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess European medical students’ perceived knowledge and opinions toward digital health, the status of digital health implementation in medical education, and the students’ most pressing needs. METHODS The explanatory design of our mixed methods study was based on an online, anonymous, self-administered survey targeted toward European medical students. A linear regression analysis was used to identify the influence of the year of medical studies on the responses. Additional analysis was performed by grouping the responses by the self-evaluated frequency of eHealth technology use. Written responses to four qualitative questions in the survey were analyzed using an inductive approach. RESULTS The survey received a total of 451 responses from 39 European countries, and there were respondents for every year of medical studies. The majority of respondents saw advantages in the use of digital health. While 40.6% (183/451) felt prepared to work in a digitized health care system, more than half (240/451, 53.2%) evaluated their eHealth skills as poor or very poor. Medical students considered lack of education to be the reason for this, with 84.9% (383/451) agreeing or strongly agreeing that more digital health education should be implemented in the medical curriculum. Students demanded introductory and specific eHealth courses covering data management, ethical aspects, legal frameworks, research and entrepreneurial opportunities, role in public health and health systems, communication skills, and practical training. The emphasis lay on tailoring learning to future job requirements and interprofessional education. CONCLUSIONS This study shows a lack of digital health-related formats in medical education and a perceived lack of digital health literacy among European medical students. Our findings indicate a gap between the willingness of medical students to take an active role by becoming key players in the digital transformation of health care and the education that they receive through their faculties.

scholarly journals EFFICIENCY OF THE ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AT THE FACULTY IN THE FORMATION OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE FUTURE DOCTOR

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
V.H. Hryn ◽  
M.M. Ryabushko ◽  
K.V. Hryn ◽  
N.O. Riabushko
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Medical Graduate ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Future Doctor

The main task of a higher educational establishment is to train and educate highly qualified specialists. At a Medical University the object of study and the subject of the future activity of a specialist is a person, and the quality of training for a medical graduate should be at the top level. In the system of administration of a higher educational establishment, the basic level is faculty one. At the educational establishment each faculty has its own specified task and a part of the eventual goal is the training of a qualified specialist who is able to decide important tasks for the protection and preservation of population health. Medical faculty No 1 is one of the main organizational and educational-scientific structural subdivisions of the Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy, which was founded by the decision of the Academic Council, combines various departments, and works in accordance with the normative base. At each faculty, the dean works directly with the students. All dean's office members work with students directly at all stages of students’ molding as specialists and personalities. The dean's office of the medical faculty No 1 supports the organization and control of the educational process at the faculty; provides information for the assuring of high-grade educational process; controls the training of medical students; provides office work and document circulation according to the legislation. To provide effective educational process, the dean of the medical faculty No 1 and dean’s officers monitor the success and attendance of classes carefully and systematically, assist tutors in charge in organizational work with academic groups. Obligatory work of the dean’s office administration is participation in the group meetings, courses’ gathering according to organizational and educational issues, and realization of routine site meetings. Cultural, sports, health-improving, public, and volunteer kinds of work are very important for interest of young people in education. In the process of learning it is important to form a comprehensively developed personality. The dean and his mates deal with the issue of providing the medical students with hostels or other accommodation.  Control for the organization and performing of professional training course is constant duties of the dean's office. This is one of the most important stages in the education of a future doctor. The specificity of the medical profession requires constant contact with colleagues, because there are different situations that require consultation with leading specialists, who are highly qualified professionals. At many public and private medical establishments pedagogical activity and medical-consultative work are carried out by the teachers of the academy, who ensure the professional development of young medical specialists. Thus, the administrative work of the dean's office is constantly improved and modified in accordance with current conditions. According to modern challenges of organizing the educational process on line, the dean's office members work on the digital platforms, master the information technology, and develop new methods of work that ensure the formation of a highly educated and competitive specialist as a modern doctor.

scholarly journals Medical Students' Corner: Lessons From COVID-19 in Equity, Adaptability, and Community for the Future of Medical Education

10.2196/23604 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. e23604
Author(s):  
Simran Mann ◽  
Shonnelly Novintan ◽  
Yasmin Hazemi-Jebelli ◽  
Daniel Faehndrich
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
School Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
Remote Learning

As UK medical students, we recently completed 3 months of remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before taking online end-of-the-year exams. We are now entering our final year of medical school. Based on our experiences and our understanding of others’ experiences, we believe that three key lessons have been universal for medical students around the world. The lessons learned throughout this process address the need for a fair system for medical students, the importance of adaptability in all aspects of medical education, and the value of a strong medical school community. These lessons can be applied in the years to come to improve medical education as we know it.

The Role of Blended Learning in 21st Century Medical Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 132-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey W. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Drivers

The teaching of medical students is of paramount importance for society as the goal is to have well-educated and competent physicians that can help address the healthcare issues facing today’s society. The pedagogical influences that drive medical education have seen many advances in the past 30 years, but one that is seen as a leader for the future is the use of blended learning. This chapter will highlight that blended learning in medicine allows learners to be flexible in their education, as they are not constrained by time or distance as they move towards developing core competencies needed for their chosen discipline. One of the key drivers of this momentum in medicine is technology, and blended learning is one of the leading pedagogical influences in medical education for the future.

scholarly journals How can WhatsApp® facilitate the future of medical education and clinical practice?

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammed Aizaz us Salam ◽  
George Chukwuemeka Oyekwe ◽  
Sami Ahmad Ghani ◽  
Regwaan Imtiaz Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Nature

AbstractAs part of the modern generation of medical students and prospective future doctors of the United Kingdom’s Nation Health Service (NHS), we have grown up in an age where smartphones and instant messaging applications (IMAs) are ubiquitous across all aspects of society. With IMAs being so familiar, we recognise their scope for facilitating our learning of the pre-registration syllabus and how their practical nature could potentially revolutionise healthcare worldwide. It is, therefore, rational to further investigate the benefits of incorporating such technology into these respective settings. In this article, we will further expand on some of the advantages highlighted by E. Colman & E. O’Connor that IMAs, particularly WhatsApp, have in the academic environment which resonate with us. We illustrate our views on IMAs being incorporated into health systems globally through exemplifying the NHS, using reviewed literature.

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