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Emergency medicine clerkship curriculum in a high-income developing country: methods for development and application.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The published recommendations for international emergency medicine curricula cover the content, but exclude teaching and learning methods, assessment, and evaluation. We aim to provide an overview on available emergency medicine clerkship curricula and report the development and application experience of our own curriculum. METHODS:Our curriculum is an outcome-based education, enriched by e-learning and various up-to-date pedagogic principles. RESULTS:Teaching and learning methods, assessment, and evaluation are described. The theory behind our practice in the light of recent literature is discussed aiming to help other colleagues from developing countries to have a clear map for developing and tailoring their own curricula depending on their needs. The details of our emergency medicine clerkship will serve as an example for developing and developed countries having immature undergraduate emergency medicine clerkship curricula. However, these recommendations will differ in various settings depending on available resources. CONCLUSIONS:The main concept of curriculum development is to create a curriculum having learning outcomes and content relevant to the local context, and then align the teaching and learning activities, assessments, and evaluations to be in harmony. This may assure favorable educational outcome even in resource limited settings.

SUBMITTER: Cevik AA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5991107 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Emergency medicine clerkship curriculum in a high-income developing country: methods for development and application.

Cevik Arif Alper AA Cakal Elif Dilek ED Abu-Zidan Fikri M FM

International journal of emergency medicine 20180607 1

<h4>Background</h4>The published recommendations for international emergency medicine curricula cover the content, but exclude teaching and learning methods, assessment, and evaluation. We aim to provide an overview on available emergency medicine clerkship curricula and report the development and application experience of our own curriculum.<h4>Methods</h4>Our curriculum is an outcome-based education, enriched by e-learning and various up-to-date pedagogic principles.<h4>Results</h4>Teaching an ...[more]

PMID: 29882065

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Project description:BackgroundIncorporating ultrasound into the clinical curriculum of undergraduate medical education has been limited by a need for faculty support. Without integration into the clinical learning environment, ultrasound skills become a stand-alone skill and may decline by the time of matriculation into residency. A less time intensive ultrasound curriculum is needed to preserve skills acquired in preclinical years. We aimed to create a self-directed ultrasound curriculum to support and assess students' ability to acquire ultrasound images and to utilize ultrasound to inform clinical decision-making.MethodsThird year students completed the self-directed ultrasound curriculum during their required internal medicine clerkship. Students used Butterfly iQ+ portable ultrasound probes. The curriculum included online modules that focused on clinical application of ultrasound as well as image acquisition technique. Students were graded on image acquisition quality and setting, a patient write-up focused on clinical decision-making, and a multiple-choice quiz. Student feedback was gathered with an end-of-course survey. Faculty time was tracked.ResultsOne hundred and ten students participated. Students averaged 1.79 (scale 0-2; SD = 0.21) on image acquisition, 78% (SD = 15%) on the quiz, and all students passed the patient write-up. Most reported the curriculum improved their clinical reasoning (72%), learning of pathophysiology (69%), and patient care (55%). Faculty time to create the curriculum was approximately 45 h. Faculty time to grade student assignments was 38.5 h per year.ConclusionsStudents were able to demonstrate adequate image acquisition, use of ultrasound to aid in clinical decision-making, and interpretation of ultrasound pathology with no in-person faculty instruction. Additionally, students reported improved learning of pathophysiology, clinical reasoning, and rapport with patients. The self-directed curriculum required less faculty time than prior descriptions of ultrasound curricula in the clinical years and could be considered at institutions that have limited faculty support.

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Emergency medicine clerkship curriculum in a high-income developing country: methods for development and application.

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Emergency medicine clerkship curriculum in a high-income developing country: methods for development and application.

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