Altruism in medical education: assessing attitudes of hospital in-patients towards face-to-face contact with medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited research indicated patients were largely amenable to seeing medical students pre-pandemic. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential risk of nosocomial transmission and harm to patients from students. Patient opinions regarding these risks remain unexplored, which impacts elicitation of informed consent. We aim to identify these, and explore whether reflection on the risks and benefits of direct student interaction influenced patients' attitudes. For guidance, we further explored measures to reduce perceived infection risk.

Method

We designed an original questionnaire for a cross-sectional study, completed by 200 inpatients from 25 wards between 18/02 and 16/03/2022 at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. Patients in intensive care, with active

SUBMITTER: Gritzner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9985091 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature