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Building Connections: Skmc – Ces Medellín International Exchange Program Development, Elias Borne, Kaitlin Demarest, Rosemary Frasso, Phd, Andres Fernandez, Md, Msed
Building Connections: Skmc – Ces Medellín International Exchange Program Development, Elias Borne, Kaitlin Demarest, Rosemary Frasso, Phd, Andres Fernandez, Md, Msed
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Introduction: To date, there has been no formal evaluation of the exchange program that sends medical students from Sydney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) to CES University, Colombia. While many medical schools have international exchange partnerships, little is known about what makes a successful global training experience. This project aims to evaluate the SKMC-CES student exchange program with the goal of improving collaboration between the two universities and creating a logic model backbone for the program going forward.
Methods: Surveys and interviews were done with program participants from the 2018 and 2019 academic years (6 students interviewed and 4 surveyed) exploring …
Medical Student Knowledge Of Narcolepsy, Alyssa Sinko, Karl Doghramji, Md
Medical Student Knowledge Of Narcolepsy, Alyssa Sinko, Karl Doghramji, Md
Phase 1
Background: Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder, whose main symptoms include daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, disturbed sleep, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The disorder is poorly identified in medical settings. We hypothesized that lack of knowledge of narcolepsy and its hallmark symptoms are a cause for the low levels of identification of this disorder. This was a pilot study into medical student knowledge of narcolepsy at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University (SKMC).
Methods: Two groups of SKMC students, years 1 and 2 (before sleep medicine education) and years 3 and 4 (after sleep medicine education) were the subjects of …