Development of a pilot procedural skills training course for preclerkship medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite procedural skills being recognized as an important component of medical school education, medical students are not confident in their ability to carry out a range of medical procedures. We conducted an institutional needs assessment and used the results to inform the creation of a procedure-based preclinical elective for first- and second-year students.

Methods

We surveyed second-, third-, and fourth-year medical students at Alpert Medical School as well as select program directors to guide selection of a list of procedures to be taught in the elective. We then created an extracurricular 10-week procedural skills course for preclerkship medical students utilizing a hands-on, flipped classroom practice model.  Volunteer preceptors were recruited from the Dep

SUBMITTER: Ayandeh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771806 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature