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Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools
BACKGROUND: As Ukraine struggles with the education of healthcare professionals due to the war, we aimed to identify the specific effects of the war on medical education, the resulting needs, and the expected consequences for schools, faculty, staff, students, and the healthcare system. METHODS: In...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605485/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37884915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04768-2 |
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author | Mayer, Anja Yaremko, Olena Shchudrova, Tetiana Korotun, Olena Dospil, Karolin Hege, Inga |
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description | BACKGROUND: As Ukraine struggles with the education of healthcare professionals due to the war, we aimed to identify the specific effects of the war on medical education, the resulting needs, and the expected consequences for schools, faculty, staff, students, and the healthcare system. METHODS: In October and November 2022, we performed a survey of students, faculty, and staff of medical schools in Ukraine and conducted semi-structured interviews with faculty leaders (i.e., rectors, vice-rectors). We conducted a descriptive analysis of the survey’s closed-ended questions. The survey and the interviews included open-ended questions about war-related restrictions to teaching and learning, resulting needs, and expected consequences, for which we applied a thematic analysis. RESULTS: We received 239 survey responses (N = 49 faculty and staff, N = 190 students) and conducted nine interviews with faculty leaders across Ukraine. Most survey participants indicated that they had experienced restrictions or changes to their work or study due to the war (86% of faculty and staff, 69% of students). From the thematic analysis of the survey and interviews, we identified eight themes: disruption of teaching, increased workload, mental stress, financial restrictions, non-war related needs, international cooperation, quality of education, and prospects of future professionals. The quality of healthcare education in Ukraine was threatened, and schools, faculty, staff, and students were under great strain. While already established international cooperation has been supportive, some needs have still not been addressed. CONCLUSIONS: We hope that our findings will help researchers and educators from abroad contribute to meeting Ukraine’s needs in medical education. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04768-2. |
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spelling | pubmed-106054852023-10-28 Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools Mayer, Anja Yaremko, Olena Shchudrova, Tetiana Korotun, Olena Dospil, Karolin Hege, Inga BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: As Ukraine struggles with the education of healthcare professionals due to the war, we aimed to identify the specific effects of the war on medical education, the resulting needs, and the expected consequences for schools, faculty, staff, students, and the healthcare system. METHODS: In October and November 2022, we performed a survey of students, faculty, and staff of medical schools in Ukraine and conducted semi-structured interviews with faculty leaders (i.e., rectors, vice-rectors). We conducted a descriptive analysis of the survey’s closed-ended questions. The survey and the interviews included open-ended questions about war-related restrictions to teaching and learning, resulting needs, and expected consequences, for which we applied a thematic analysis. RESULTS: We received 239 survey responses (N = 49 faculty and staff, N = 190 students) and conducted nine interviews with faculty leaders across Ukraine. Most survey participants indicated that they had experienced restrictions or changes to their work or study due to the war (86% of faculty and staff, 69% of students). From the thematic analysis of the survey and interviews, we identified eight themes: disruption of teaching, increased workload, mental stress, financial restrictions, non-war related needs, international cooperation, quality of education, and prospects of future professionals. The quality of healthcare education in Ukraine was threatened, and schools, faculty, staff, and students were under great strain. While already established international cooperation has been supportive, some needs have still not been addressed. CONCLUSIONS: We hope that our findings will help researchers and educators from abroad contribute to meeting Ukraine’s needs in medical education. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04768-2. BioMed Central 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10605485/ /pubmed/37884915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04768-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This 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 Mayer, Anja Yaremko, Olena Shchudrova, Tetiana Korotun, Olena Dospil, Karolin Hege, Inga Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools |
title | Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools |
title_full | Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools |
title_fullStr | Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools |
title_short | Medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at Ukrainian medical schools |
title_sort | medical education in times of war: a mixed-methods needs analysis at ukrainian medical schools |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605485/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37884915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04768-2 |
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