Digital undergraduate medical education and patient and carer involvement: a rapid systematic review of current practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Involving patients and carers in medical students' learning aims to centralise the perspective of healthcare users and supports our future medical workforce in the development of key skills. Medical schools are increasingly using digital technology for teaching and it is timely to understand how to maintain patient and carer involvement in this context.

Methods

Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE and medRxiv were searched in October 2020 and reference lists of key articles were hand searched. Eligible studies reported authentic patient or carer involvement in undergraduate medical education where technology was also used. Study quality was assessed by the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT). Levels of patient or carer involvement were assessed using Towle et al.'s (2010) ta

SUBMITTER: Lawes-Wickwar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10185935 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature