Confidence-building in a collaborative, multidisciplinary mock page activity for fourth-year medical students

Autor: Melissa Victory Brodman, Aaleena Zaidi, Sidra Qureshi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Medical Education Online, Vol 28, Iss 1 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 10872981
1087-2981
DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2023.2173995
Popis: ABSTRACTGraduating medical students require multiple skills that are not traditionally taught in medical school. Mock paging activities, where school of medicine (SOM) students receive pages as if from nursing staff in a practice environment, are being used as a tool to teach communication and to enhance confidence. Prior small-scale, specialty specific mock page activities have demonstrated improvement in confidence, communication with other healthcare personnel, and medical decision-making.3-5 This Mock Page Activity aimed to evaluate the effect on confidence and communication for large graduating SOM class entering different specialties. SOM faculty collaborated with the School of Nursing (SON) faculty in the design and implementation of this activity. Medical students completed pre-/post surveys regarding confidence in communication, interaction with other healthcare professionals, and patient management. Two years of medical student survey data (n=420) after the Mock Page Activity implementation demonstrated a significant increase in general confidence (30.4%, p
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