Assessing resident experience of a new experiential learning health advocacy curriculum: a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health Advocacy is considered one of the most difficult skills to teach. Many medical learners feel ill-equipped in social competencies and identify it as a significant gap in their medical training. Experiential learning has recently been emerging as a more effective method to teach health advocacy. The Post Graduate Medical Education (PGME) Health Advocacy Day is a new experiential learning curriculum designed to teach important competencies of health advocacy and social accountability to post-graduate medical residents at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. The objective of this mixed-methods study was to assess resident experiences.

Methods

Second-year trainees from all adult residency programs attended the Advocacy Day as part of a mandatory academic

SUBMITTER: Moledina A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11391829 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature