Integrating occupational health into the medicine clerkship using problem-based learning.

Autor: Sokas, Rosemary, Diserens, Deborah, Johnston, Mary, Sokas, R K, Diserens, D, Johnston, M A
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Zdroj: JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine; Sep1991, Vol. 6 Issue 5, p450-454, 5p
Abstrakt: Objective: To improve medical students' ability and willingness to obtain occupational histories from their patients.Participants: General medicine faculty and internal medicine teaching residents, who participated as instructors, and medical students during their required internal medicine clerkships.Setting: The primary teaching hospitals of two medical schools.Design: During alternate months, students participated in problem-based sessions that included occupational health objectives (intervention) or attended the standard small-group didactic sessions (control). Process evaluations were collected from students and faculty in the intervention group following each session. Outcome evaluation was performed using chart audit and multiple-choice testing to compare the intervention and control groups.Intervention: Intervention students participated in at least one problem-based session incorporating occupational aspects of disease into clinical internal medicine. Instructors received information packets and materials but had no other expertise in occupational medicine.Measurements and Main Results: The great majority of ratings on the process evaluations showed that the students were "moderately" to "extremely" interested in the session attended. No student rated any session to be a "waste of time," and over 90% of students would recommend the session being evaluated to a friend. Chart audit showed that students in the intervention group recorded slightly more occupational information than did those in the control group (an average of 2.97 vs. 2.37 pieces of information, p = 0.06). When the most commonly documented data (employment status and job title) were ignored, the difference between group means (1.1 vs. 0.91) was significant (p = 0.03), suggesting that intervention students were more likely to probe further into a patient's occupational history. Both groups of students collected less occupational information from women than from men (t = 3.22, p = 0.0035). Multiple-choice tests revealed no difference between the two groups in overall medical knowledge or occupational medicine knowledge.Conclusions: Problem-based learning with specific occupational content is well accepted by students and modestly improves their occupational history taking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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