Lessons learned from adapting a remote area health placement from physical to virtual: a COVID-19-driven innovation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

 To investigate the acceptability and the effectiveness of a virtual adaptation of a well-established, mandatory, community-based pre-clinical remote area health placement in which medical students learn about the social and environmental determinants of health in remote Australia; and make recommendations to guide the delivery of future learning experiences.

Methods

A mixed-methods convergent design was used. All 99 students, 36 placement hosts and 10 staff were invited to complete an online survey and 27(27%), 12(33%) and 10(100%), respectively, contributed data.  Qualitative data were collected via semi-structured interviews from four students, four hosts and six staff. Survey data were analysed using descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and open-e

SUBMITTER: Mak DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12928721 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature