How to Teach Medical Students About Pain and Dementia: E-Learning, Experiential Learning, or Both?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pain management in persons with mild to moderate dementia poses unique challenges because of altered pain modulation and the tendency of some individuals to perseverate. We aimed to test the impact of an e-learning module about pain in communicative people with dementia on third-year medical students who had or had not completed an experiential geriatrics course.

Design

Analysis of pre- to postlearning changes and comparison of the same across the student group.

Setting

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

Subjects

One hundred four University of Pittsburgh and 57 Saint Louis University medical students.

Methods

University of Pittsburgh students were randomized to view either the pain and dem

SUBMITTER: Moehl K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7820358 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature