What is meant by "frailty" in undergraduate medical education? A national survey of UK medical schools.

Autor: Winter R; Department of Medical Education, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Room 344A Mayfield House, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK. r.winter2@bsms.ac.uk., Al-Jawad M; Department of Medical Education, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Room 344A Mayfield House, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK., Wright J; Department of Medical Education, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Room 344A Mayfield House, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK., Shrewsbury D; Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK., Van Marwijk H; Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK., Johnson H; School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK., Levett T; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Brighton, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European geriatric medicine [Eur Geriatr Med] 2021 Apr; Vol. 12 (2), pp. 355-362. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 02.
DOI: 10.1007/s41999-021-00465-9
Abstrakt: Purpose: All UK medical schools are required to include frailty in their curriculum. The term is open to interpretation and associated with negative perceptions. Understanding and recognising frailty is a prerequisite for consideration of frailty in the treatment decision-making process across clinical specialities. The aim of this survey was to describe how frailty has been interpreted and approached in UK undergraduate medical education and provide examples of educational strategies employed.
Methods: All UK medical schools were invited to complete an electronic survey. Schools described educational strategies used to teach and assess frailty and provided frailty-related learning outcomes. Learning Outcomes were grouped into categories and mapped to the domains of Outcomes for Graduates (knowledge, skills and values).
Results: 25/34 Medical schools (74%) participated. The interpretation of what frailty is vary widely and the diversity of teaching strategies reflect this. The most common Learning outcomes included as "Frailty" are about the concept of frailty, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments and Roles of the MDT. Frailty teaching is predominantly opportunistic and occurred within geriatric medicine rotations in all medical schools. Assessments focus on frailty syndromes such as falls and delirium.
Conclusion: There is variation regarding how frailty has been interpreted and approached by medical schools. Frailty is represented in an array of teaching and assessment methods, with a lack of constructive alignment to related learning outcomes. Consensus should be agreed as to what frailty means in medical education. Further research is required to explore which frailty-specific educational strategies in undergraduate medical education enhance learning.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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