Educational Applications of Psychotherapy for the Medical Students: Development of Psychotherapy Education Model

Abstract Background In response to the staggering global burden of conditions requiring emergency and essential surgery, the development of international surgical system strengthening (SSS) is fundamental to achieving universal, timely, quality, and affordable surgical care. Opportunity exists in identifying optimal collaborative processes that both promote global surgery research and SSS, and include medical students. This study explores an education model to engage students in academic global surgery and SSS via institutional support for longitudinal research. Objectives We set out to design a program to align global health education and longitudinal health systems research by creating an education model to engage medical students in academic global surgery and SSS. Program design and implementation In 2015, medical schools in the United States and Colombia initiated a collaborative partnership for academic global surgery research and SSS. This included development of two longitudinal academic tracks in global health medical education and academic global surgery, which we differentiated by level of institutional resourcing. Herein is a retrospective evaluation of the first two years of this program by using commonly recognized academic output metrics. Main achievements In the first two years of the program, there were 76 total applicants to the two longitudinal tracks. Six of the 16 (37.5%) accepted students selected global surgery faculty as mentors (Acute Care Surgery faculty participating in SSS with Colombia). These global surgery students subsequently spent 24 total working weeks abroad over the two-year period participating in culminating research experiences in SSS. As a quantitative measure of the program’s success, the students collectively produced a total of twenty scholarly pieces in the form of accepted posters, abstracts, podium presentations, and manuscripts in partnership with Colombian research mentors. Policy implications The establishment of scholarly global health education and research tracks has afforded our medical students an active role in international SSS through participation in academic global surgery research. We propose that these complementary programs can serve as a model for disseminated education and training of the future global systems-aware surgeon workforce with bidirectional growth in south and north regions with traditionally under-resourced SSS training programs.

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On the Multidisciplinary Perspective of Medical Education Model Research and Its Impact on Medical Students' Smoking Behavior

Tobacco Regulatory Science ◽

10.18001/trs.7.6.69 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

pp. 5894-5902

Author(s):

Chen Sihua ◽

Wu Shuang ◽

Xi Biao

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Education Research ◽

Medical Students ◽

Role Model ◽

Smoking Behavior ◽

Medical Education Research ◽

Research Problems ◽

Education Model ◽

Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽

The Impact

Medical education research is relatively an emerging field, which is not only because of its interdisciplinary nature of pedagogy and medicine, but more importantly, the methods and findings of medical education research are borrowed from research results and literature in the fields of pedagogy, history, sociology, cognition and psychology. This determines the multidisciplinary nature of medical education research. In fact, many research problems are complex and diverse, which requires the use of knowledge and resources in multiple disciplines and fields for understanding or solution. Hence, now more emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary research, rather than pure multidisciplinary research, which is to integrate the theories, thinking and methods of multiple disciplines to jointly study a problem. In medical education research, appropriate use of theories and methods of different disciplines may produce new theories and methods, which in turn may be used for reference by other disciplines and fields. On the premise of this multi-disciplinary perspective, this paper discusses the impact of the change of medical education model on the smoking behavior of medical students, and points out that the non-smoking behavior of medical students is especially affected by the interaction between the role model behavior of teachers in medical colleges and the teaching humanistic environment, Finally, the conclusion is that the research on medical education similar to complex cases needs to be examined from the perspective of integrated thinking and multi-disciplinary.

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Evaluation of the Medical Students' Satisfaction with Learning About Diabetes Through the Mobile App During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Medical Education ◽

10.5812/jme.114908 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Seyedeh Zeinab Ghaheri ◽

Alireza Hazbenejad ◽

Fatemeh Maghsoudi ◽

Esmat Radmanesh

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Mobile Apps ◽

Virtual Classroom ◽

Mobile App ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

First Semester ◽

Fast Learning ◽

Use Of Technology ◽

Educational Videos ◽

Educational Applications

Background: The use of technology in distance education can help cross the borders of space and time for lifelong learning. One of the active learning methods is the use of the mobile apps with the potential to develop medical education. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of using diabetes educational mobile app in the endocrine physiology virtual classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: In the present study, an educational mobile app for diabetes, including the information modules, as well as educational videos made by the researchers of this study, was designed for 32 medical students of Abadan University of Medical Sciences who had endocrine physiology courses in the first semester of the academic year 2019 - 2021. A researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 10 questions about learning the educational content of diabetes through the application containing educational videos in the virtual classroom of endocrine physiology, scoring based on a five-point Likert scale, was provided. The data were analyzed by SPSS 21 using descriptive statistics. Results: The results obtained based on the highest satisfaction percentage were as follows: creativity in learning (90.625%), fast learning (87.5%), accessible learning (84.375%), practical learning (81.25%), sustainable learning (81.25%), eagerness to learn (78.78%), attractive learning (78.125%), accurate learning (78.125%), reducing the student's dependence on the teacher (75%), and feeling more confident (75%). Conclusions: Using educational applications along with other teaching methods can lead to fast, creative, practical, accurate, and lasting learning, and due to its attractiveness, it creates a desire to learn in people.

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