Virtual student-transplant patient interactions empower patients and enhance student transplantation knowledge.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is variation in exposure to transplantation in undergraduate medical education. We created a program pairing medical students with transplant patients for semi-structured, virtual encounters and studied the impact on both students and patients using qualitative content analysis.

Methods

Fifty medical students were paired with transplant recipients and donors for non-medical virtual encounters. Separate focus groups were conducted, deidentified, and analyzed using a constant comparative method.

Results

Three themes related to the student experience emerged: transplant-related relationships, a deeper understanding of the patient's journey to transplant, and alterations of their personal view of organ donation and transplantation. Three themes emerged

SUBMITTER: Coe TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10072134 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature