scholarly journals Teaching Laboratory Medicine to Medical Students: Implementation and Evaluation

2012 ◽  
Vol 136 (11) ◽  
pp. 1423-1429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross J. Molinaro ◽  
Anne M. Winkler ◽  
Colleen S. Kraft ◽  
Corinne R. Fantz ◽  
Sean R. Stowell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Laboratory Experience ◽  
Select Group ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge

Context.—Laboratory medicine is an integral component of patient care. Approximately 60% to 70% of medical decisions are based on laboratory results. Physicians in specialties that order the tests are teaching medical students laboratory medicine and test use with minimal input from laboratory scientists who implement and maintain the quality control for those tests. Objective.—To develop, implement, and evaluate a 1.5-day medical student clinical laboratory experience for fourth-year medical students in their last month of training. Design.—The experience was devised and directed by laboratory scientists and included a panel discussion, laboratory tours, case studies that focused on the goals and objectives recently published by the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, and medical-student presentations highlighting salient points of the experience. The same knowledge quiz was administered at the beginning and end of the experience and 84 students took both quizzes. Results.—A score of 7 or more was obtained by 16 students (19%) on the initial quiz, whereas 34 (40%) obtained the same score on the final quiz; the improvement was found to be statistically significant (P  =  .002; t  =  3.215), particularly in 3 out of the 10 questions administered. Conclusions.—Although the assessment can only measure a small amount of knowledge recently acquired, the improvement observed by fourth-year medical students devoting a short period to learning laboratory medicine principles was encouraging. This medical student clinical laboratory experience format allowed teaching of a select group of laboratory medicine principles in 1.5 days to an entire medical school class.

scholarly journals The Evolving Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Student Orthopedic Education: Perspectives From Medical Students in Different Phases of the Curriculum

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 215145932095172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle A. Richardson ◽  
Wasif Islam ◽  
Matthew Magruder
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Program Coordinators ◽  
Orthopedic Surgeons ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students ◽  
Residency Application ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: The world-wide lockdown caused by Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has upended the trajectories of lives everywhere. The medical profession has been on the front lines of this rapidly developing situation, which in turn has called for unprecedented changes in the medical school curriculum. These changes have severe implications for medical students interested in applying to competitive surgical specialties like orthopedics. Methods: As medical students in 3 different class years pursuing orthopedic surgery, we provide our perspectives on the impact that COVID-19 has had on medical student orthopedic education. Results: With the removal of away rotations and a shift to virtual interviews, rising fourth year medical students are arguably the most impacted as they prepare for the orthopedic residency application process. Third year students, who are in the exploratory phase of choosing a specialty, also face uncertainties in the shift to a “new” clerkship experience that may (1) be of shorter duration, (2) implement shifts to limit overcrowding of clinical space, and (3) increase the use of telehealth over direct patient contact. Discussion: The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of medical students’ orthopedic education in unprecedented ways. We believe the following suggestions may be helpful for students seeking alternative, supplemental ways of learning: (1) read up on major orthopedic journals, (2) reach out to orthopedic surgeons in areas of interest, (3) reach out to program directors/medical clerkship directors/program coordinators for opportunities to attend their educational curriculum virtually, (4) attend online lectures and hospital grand rounds, and (5) practice suturing technique with a practice kit. Conclusions: While the medical education landscape remains uncertain amid the evolving conditions of COVID-19, as medical students we strive to learn from this pandemic and respond to future unforeseen challenges with resilience, dedication, and compassion: all qualities we admire in orthopedic surgeons.

scholarly journals Medical Student Identification of Knee Effusion by Ultrasound

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hoppmann ◽  
Patrick Hunt ◽  
Hunter Louis ◽  
Brian Keisler ◽  
Nancy Richeson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Quadriceps Tendon ◽  
Ultrasound Scanning ◽  
Practice Session ◽  
Anatomical Structures ◽  
Knee Effusion ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Introductory Lecture ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students

Twenty-one fourth-year medical students were given a brief lecture on ultrasound of the knee and fifteen minutes of supervised ultrasound scanning of three cadavers which had been injected with saline to give varying degrees of knee effusions. Each student was then individually observed and required to scan both knees of a cadaver different from the practice cadavers and identify the patella, the femur, the quadriceps tendon and if a suprapatellar effusion was present, and which knee had the larger effusion. All twenty-one students correctly identified all anatomical structures, suprapatellar effusions, and which knee had the larger effusion. Identifying a knee effusion can be an important clinical finding in diagnosing and managing a patient with knee complaints. Fourth-year medical students can learn to identify knee effusions with ultrasound following a brief introductory lecture and hands-on scanning practice session.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Two Years of a Medical Student Clinical Laboratory Experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 138 (suppl 2) ◽  
pp. A376-A376
Author(s):  
Ross J. Molinaro ◽  
Annie Winkler ◽  
Sylvia Bunting ◽  
Dave Koch ◽  
James Ritchie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Laboratory Experience

scholarly journals Medical Student Interest in Flexible Residency Training Options

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 339-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madison Piotrowski ◽  
Debra Stulberg ◽  
Mari Egan
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Residency Training ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Drexel University ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students

Background and Objectives: Medical residents continue to experience high rates of burnout during residency training even after implementation of the 2003 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty-hour restrictions. The purpose of this study is to determine medical student interest in flexible residency training options. Methods: Researchers developed an 11-question survey for second through fourth-year medical students. The populations surveyed included medical students who were: (1) attending the 2015 American Academy of Family Physicians National Conference, the 2015 Family Medicine Midwest Conference, and (2) enrolled at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Drexel University College of Medicine, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Results: The survey was completed by 789 medical students. Over half of medical students surveyed indicated that they would be interested in working part-time during some portion of their residency training (51%), and that access to part-time training options would increase their likelihood of applying to a particular residency program (52%). When given the option of three residency training schedules of varying lengths, 41% of male students and 60% of female students chose a 60-hour workweek, even when that meant extending the residency length by 33% and reducing their yearly salary to $39,000. Conclusions: There is considerable interest among medical students in access to part-time residency training options and reduced-hour residency programs. This level of interest indicates that offering flexible training options could be an effective recruitment tool for residency programs and could improve students’ perception of their work-life balance during residency.

A Multicenter Qualitative Analysis of Medical Student Narratives After a Palliative Care Elective

2020 ◽  
pp. 104990912097156
Author(s):  
Alana Sagin ◽  
Matthew S. Ellman ◽  
Ruhi R. Shariff ◽  
Christopher A. Jones ◽  
Kate Tindall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Patient’S Experience ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students

Background: The medical student experience of a clinical elective in palliative care (PC) remains understudied. Reflective narrative interventions can help students hone narrative competency skills, make sense of their clinical experiences and shed light on their perception of the rotation. Objectives: To evaluate medical student written reflections after a PC clinical elective. Design: Students were asked to write a short reflective essay after PC clinical electives using open-ended writing prompts. Setting: Essays were collected from third and fourth-year medical students after completion of a PC elective at three geographically diverse academic medical centers in the United States. Measurements: Essays were coded for themes using a conventional content qualitative method of analysis. Results: Thirty-four essays were analyzed and four major themes emerged: reflection on the mission of medicine or motivation for being in medicine, reflection on professional skills or lessons learned, reflection on patient’s experience and personal responses to PC rotation. Sub-themes were also identified. Conclusions: Themes underscore the utility of the PC clinical elective as a meaningful experience that imparts useful skills, builds empathy, reminds students of their own motivations for being in medicine and serves as a catalyst for reflection on their own lives and relationships with their patients. Awareness of medical students’ personal and emotional responses to a PC elective can help inform educators as they support their students and provide opportunities for reflection and education.

scholarly journals Model Orthopaedic Surgical Skills Curriculum for Fourth Year Medical Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Benjamin Matthew Wooster ◽  
Samuel Evan Carstensen ◽  
James E Johnson ◽  
Allston Julius Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Orthopaedic Surgery ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
House Officer ◽  
Surgical Skills ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students

ABSTRACT Musculoskeletal education in medical schools throughout the United States is inconsistent. Furthermore, formal surgical skill training in medical school is often lacking. Consequently, orthopaedic surgery residents in the United States are faced with a unique challenge as they transition from medical student to house officer in comparison to their peers pursuing more generalized specialties. In response, we designed and successfully implemented an innovative month long elective at Wake Forest University School of Medicine for fourth year medical students who were in the process of applying to ortho paedic surgery residency programs. This course provides medical students with an introduction to the basic skills and common surgical approaches that are commonly utilized early in orthopaedic surgery residency and beyond. While longi tudinal data are needed, we believe this novel month long elective will allow the transition from medical student to house officer to be a smoother and more seamless process. Wooster BM, Carstensen SE, Johnson JE, Stubbs AJ. Model Orthopaedic Surgical Skills Curriculum for Fourth Year Medical Students. The Duke Orthop J 2015;5(1):15. All other authors report no declarations of interest.

Gauging the feasibility of cost-sharing and medical student interest groups to reduce interview costs

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. E11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan A. Lieber ◽  
Taylor A. Wilson ◽  
Randy S. Bell ◽  
William W. Ashley ◽  
Daniel L. Barrow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Cost Sharing ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Chat Room ◽  
Hotel Room ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students ◽  
Local Students

Indirect costs of the interview tour can be prohibitive. The authors sought to assess the desire of interviewees to mitigate these costs through ideas such as sharing hotel rooms and transportation, willingness to stay with local students, and the preferred modality to coordinate this collaboration. A survey link was posted on the Uncle Harvey website and the Facebook profile page of fourth-year medical students from 6 different medical schools shortly after the 2014 match day. There were a total of 156 respondents to the survey. The majority of the respondents were postinterview medical students (65.4%), but preinterview medical students (28.2%) and current residents (6.4%) also responded to the survey. Most respondents were pursuing a field other than neurosurgery (75.0%) and expressed a desire to share a hotel room and/or transportation (77.4%) as well as stay in the dorm room of a medical student at the program in which they are interviewing (70.0%). Students going into neurosurgery were significantly more likely to be interested in sharing hotel/transportation (89.2% neurosurgery vs 72.8% nonneurosurgery; p = 0.040) and in staying in the dorm room of a local student when on interviews (85.0% neurosurgery vs 57.1% nonneurosurgery; p = 0.040) than those going into other specialties. Among postinterview students, communication was preferred to be by private, email identification–only chat room. Given neurosurgery resident candidates' interest in collaborating to reduce interview costs, consideration should be given to creating a system that could allow students to coordinate cost sharing between interviewees. Moreover, interviewees should be connected to local students from neurosurgery interest groups as a resource.

A Quantitative Assessment of the Need for Offering Counselling Services to Medical Students attending University of Zambia, School of Medicine.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Gretchen Slover
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Fourth Year Medical Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Therapy Sessions

Background: This research was birthed in 2017 during a trip to Lusaka, Zambia, with the purpose of offering fourth-year, medical students attending the University of Zambia, School of Medicine, lectures on psychology topics as part of their clinical studies.  Students were also offered brief therapy sessions where they could process thoughts and feelings causing them internal struggles.  The subject of offering counseling on a regular basis was randomly discussed with the students.  From these discussions the need for this research became evident, with the intent of becoming the launching pad to brainstorm the most effective ways of developing a plan to offer counseling services for all medical students attending the University of Zambia School of Medicine. Methods: An-experimental research design, consisting of completion of a 12-item questionnaire administered by paper and pen. The inclusion criteria were the fourth year, medical students attending the University of Zambia, School of Medicine. Results:  The student responses revealed that most of them had little to no experience with counseling services, but a strong desire for them. Discussion: The goal of this study was to simply establish a need for an on-campus counseling service, the need of which has been established by the very students who would benefit.  With the acceptance of this need, the future plan is to explore the different ways in which this need can be fulfilled with minimal costs to the Medical School Program. Conclusion:  This study is the first step towards identifying the needs of the medical students and sets the ground-work for further research into the specific areas of need and mental health challenges.  More specificity in the area of demographics of students will produce a more comprehensive picture of the areas of concentration for the therapists offering services.

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