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Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study
INTRODUCTION: Globalization and other relevant phenomena such as healthcare workforce, ageing of the population, brain drain etc. all necessitate medical curricula to transcend national medicine and encompass a more global approach. This is especially true in the context of developing countries whic...
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author | Malik, Sawazen Alkoronky, Asi Elmahi, Mugahid Alsafi, Safaa Shehada, Fares Rahma, Rawasi Alam Elhuda, Daffalla |
author_facet | Malik, Sawazen Alkoronky, Asi Elmahi, Mugahid Alsafi, Safaa Shehada, Fares Rahma, Rawasi Alam Elhuda, Daffalla |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Globalization and other relevant phenomena such as healthcare workforce, ageing of the population, brain drain etc. all necessitate medical curricula to transcend national medicine and encompass a more global approach. This is especially true in the context of developing countries which currently act as passive recipients of ongoing global decisions, health inequities or pandemics. The aim of this research was to study the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese medical students towards global health education and the impact of extra-curricular activities on their knowledge and attitudes. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional institutional based study. The study was conducted in five Sudanese Universities and participants were selected using systematic random sampling. An online-based, self-administered questionnaire was used, samples were collected between November 2019 until April 2020 and data was analyzed using SPSS version 25. RESULTS: 1176 medical students were involved. The study revealed a poor level of knowledge among 72.4%, and only 2.3% of respondents revealed a good level of knowledge. Mean knowledge scores between Universities slightly vary and have shown positive correlation according to the grade of the medical student. Regarding attitude, the results demonstrated the high level of interest of medical students in global health, their agreement in including global health in their official medical education curriculum (64.8%) and their consideration of including global health as part of their future career (46.8%). CONCLUSION: The study concluded that there is a knowledge gap among Sudanese medical students regarding global health education, although students showed good attitudes and willingness to include global health in their official curriculum. RECOMMENDATIONS: Global health education should be implemented in the official curriculums of Sudanese Universities, and Universities should do global partnerships and increase the learning and teaching opportunities in this interesting field. |
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spelling | pubmed-100916562023-04-13 Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study Malik, Sawazen Alkoronky, Asi Elmahi, Mugahid Alsafi, Safaa Shehada, Fares Rahma, Rawasi Alam Elhuda, Daffalla BMC Med Educ Research INTRODUCTION: Globalization and other relevant phenomena such as healthcare workforce, ageing of the population, brain drain etc. all necessitate medical curricula to transcend national medicine and encompass a more global approach. This is especially true in the context of developing countries which currently act as passive recipients of ongoing global decisions, health inequities or pandemics. The aim of this research was to study the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese medical students towards global health education and the impact of extra-curricular activities on their knowledge and attitudes. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional institutional based study. The study was conducted in five Sudanese Universities and participants were selected using systematic random sampling. An online-based, self-administered questionnaire was used, samples were collected between November 2019 until April 2020 and data was analyzed using SPSS version 25. RESULTS: 1176 medical students were involved. The study revealed a poor level of knowledge among 72.4%, and only 2.3% of respondents revealed a good level of knowledge. Mean knowledge scores between Universities slightly vary and have shown positive correlation according to the grade of the medical student. Regarding attitude, the results demonstrated the high level of interest of medical students in global health, their agreement in including global health in their official medical education curriculum (64.8%) and their consideration of including global health as part of their future career (46.8%). CONCLUSION: The study concluded that there is a knowledge gap among Sudanese medical students regarding global health education, although students showed good attitudes and willingness to include global health in their official curriculum. RECOMMENDATIONS: Global health education should be implemented in the official curriculums of Sudanese Universities, and Universities should do global partnerships and increase the learning and teaching opportunities in this interesting field. BioMed Central 2023-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10091656/ /pubmed/37041577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04168-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Malik, Sawazen Alkoronky, Asi Elmahi, Mugahid Alsafi, Safaa Shehada, Fares Rahma, Rawasi Alam Elhuda, Daffalla Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study |
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Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study
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Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study
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Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study
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Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study
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Global Health in Undergraduate Education: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese Medical Students towards Global Health Education: a cross-sectional study
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title_sort | global health in undergraduate education: knowledge, attitude, and practice of sudanese medical students towards global health education: a cross-sectional study |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10091656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37041577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04168-6 |
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