Considerations for Designing and Implementing a Multi-institution Undergraduate Medical Education Experience.

ABSTRACT: Cancer Care Experience (CCE) is a unique elective educational program to further explore the subspecialty of oncology beyond the scope of the traditional undergraduate medical education curriculum. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CCE moved from an in-person to a virtual learning platform. This transition allowed program leaders to offer CCE as a multi-institutional program, with students participating from both Duke University School of Medicine and Penn State College of Medicine. Our study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of virtual learning, student perspectives on multi-institutional collaboration, and the program's impact on the student's understanding of oncology care and clerkship preparedness. Overall, students indicated CCE was an impactful program for them to learn more about

SUBMITTER: King S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10208909 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature