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Virtual student-transplant patient interactions empower patients and enhance student transplantation knowledge.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is variation in exposure to transplantation in undergraduate medical education. We created a program pairing medical students with transplant patients for semi-structured, virtual encounters and studied the impact on both students and patients using qualitative content analysis.

Methods

Fifty medical students were paired with transplant recipients and donors for non-medical virtual encounters. Separate focus groups were conducted, deidentified, and analyzed using a constant comparative method.

Results

Three themes related to the student experience emerged: transplant-related relationships, a deeper understanding of the patient's journey to transplant, and alterations of their personal view of organ donation and transplantation. Three themes emerged from the patient's experiences: the benefits of conversations, the patient as a teacher, and spreading the message of organ donation and transplantation.

Conclusions

This novel program demonstrates that virtual student-patient interactions are a useful approach to engage patients and a unique way to teach medical students about transplantation and donation.

SUBMITTER: Coe TM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10072134 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Virtual student-transplant patient interactions empower patients and enhance student transplantation knowledge.

Coe Taylor M TM Chirban Ariana M AM McBroom Trevor J TJ Cloonan Daniel J DJ Brownlee Sarah A SA Moses Joy J Yeh Heidi H Petrusa Emil E Saillant Noelle N Dageforde Leigh Anne LA

American journal of surgery 20210930 6

<h4>Introduction</h4>There is variation in exposure to transplantation in undergraduate medical education. We created a program pairing medical students with transplant patients for semi-structured, virtual encounters and studied the impact on both students and patients using qualitative content analysis.<h4>Methods</h4>Fifty medical students were paired with transplant recipients and donors for non-medical virtual encounters. Separate focus groups were conducted, deidentified, and analyzed usin ...[more]

PMID: 34635311

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