Teaching therapy decision-making to medical students: a prospective mixed-methods evaluation of a curricular innovation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Therapy decision-making (TDM) is an essential medical skill. However, teaching therapeutic reasoning poses significant challenges. We present a comprehensive TDM course for medical students and report on student satisfaction with the educational strategies, their perceived importance of various TDM domains, and their self-efficacy in incorporating these elements into clinical decisions.

Methods

Three student cohorts participated in a 16-week TDM course, which included self-instruction modules, application assignments, faculty symposia, and application seminars as educational strategies. The course focused on TDM and emphasized how factors such as the patient's diagnosis, needs and preferences, treatment options, physicians' viewpoints, the patient-physician relati

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Huidobro D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11670388 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature