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Surgical Ethics Online Needs Assessment And Pilot Curriculum, Michael Amendola
Surgical Ethics Online Needs Assessment And Pilot Curriculum, Michael Amendola
Health Sciences Education Symposium
National undergraduate medical student curriculums dedicated to the ethical practice of surgery are lacking. To that end, we propose a Surgical Ethics Online (SEO) course. SEO will be undertaken during third year medical school surgical clerkships at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (VCU-SOM). SEO is an online collaborative educational program centered around clearly defined objectives that focus on the principles of clinical ethics. Learners will be evaluated with a pre- and post-program assessment as well as with online discussion forum evaluation. The program will be formally distributed to VCU-SOM in the fall of 2018. An abridged pilot and needs …
Preparing A Better Doctor: The C3 Curriculum And Osce Scores, Kimberly Pedram
Preparing A Better Doctor: The C3 Curriculum And Osce Scores, Kimberly Pedram
Health Sciences Education Symposium
In 2013, a horizontally integrated 18 month curriculum (C3) for undergraduate medical students, which replaced the traditional 24 month basic sciences curriculum, was implemented at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. A retrospective, all-inclusive study was conducted comparing the performance of the last group of students completing the 24 month curriculum (the Class of 2016, n=196) and the first group of students completing the 18 month curriculum (the Class of 2017, n=205) on the end-of-course OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Exam). Students who completed the 18 month curriculum had significantly higher OSCE case scores (7.7 points, p <0.0001) as well as higher OSCE category scores (2.2 points, p = 0.002).