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Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology

PURPOSE: First- and second-year medical students typically have limited exposure to the field of anesthesiology, yet recent match data shows growing interest in the specialty. Early, structured exposure to anesthesiology in the form of a preclinical elective may allow medical students to make more i...

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Autores principales: Walsh, Kendra L, Yadav, Abhishek, Cradeur, Michael, Huang, Henry, Lee, Daniel, Owusu-Dapaah, Harry, Ji, Chao, Kendall, Mark C, Asher, Shyamal
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Publicado: Dove 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10693776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38050578
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S427974
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author Walsh, Kendra L
Yadav, Abhishek
Cradeur, Michael
Huang, Henry
Lee, Daniel
Owusu-Dapaah, Harry
Ji, Chao
Kendall, Mark C
Asher, Shyamal
author_facet Walsh, Kendra L
Yadav, Abhishek
Cradeur, Michael
Huang, Henry
Lee, Daniel
Owusu-Dapaah, Harry
Ji, Chao
Kendall, Mark C
Asher, Shyamal
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description PURPOSE: First- and second-year medical students typically have limited exposure to the field of anesthesiology, yet recent match data shows growing interest in the specialty. Early, structured exposure to anesthesiology in the form of a preclinical elective may allow medical students to make more informed decisions on their specialty of choice. METHODS: The anesthesiology preclinical elective, BIOL 6704: “Anesthesia: Much More than Putting you to Sleep”, is a one-credit course taught at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. A survey consisting of fifteen questions assessing changes in attitudes, perceptions, and interest in anesthesiology was distributed to first- and second-year medical students before and after course participation. The results were analyzed using the Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test for paired samples. RESULTS: The biggest impact of the preclinical elective was observed in the students’ subjective understanding of key aspects of the practice of anesthesiology. Statistically significant improvement was seen in the understanding of airway management, anesthetic pharmacology, basics of ultrasound, vascular access, anesthesiology subspecialties, and an understanding of anesthesiology residency. Overall, results were limited by our small sample size. CONCLUSION: Our elective allows medical students to explore anesthesiology early in their medical school career. After taking this course, students noted more familiarity with various topics in anesthesiology. Peer institutions lacking a similar course may consider using our experience to increase interest about the specialty of anesthesiology for future students.
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spelling pubmed-106937762023-12-04 Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology Walsh, Kendra L Yadav, Abhishek Cradeur, Michael Huang, Henry Lee, Daniel Owusu-Dapaah, Harry Ji, Chao Kendall, Mark C Asher, Shyamal Adv Med Educ Pract Original Research PURPOSE: First- and second-year medical students typically have limited exposure to the field of anesthesiology, yet recent match data shows growing interest in the specialty. Early, structured exposure to anesthesiology in the form of a preclinical elective may allow medical students to make more informed decisions on their specialty of choice. METHODS: The anesthesiology preclinical elective, BIOL 6704: “Anesthesia: Much More than Putting you to Sleep”, is a one-credit course taught at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. A survey consisting of fifteen questions assessing changes in attitudes, perceptions, and interest in anesthesiology was distributed to first- and second-year medical students before and after course participation. The results were analyzed using the Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test for paired samples. RESULTS: The biggest impact of the preclinical elective was observed in the students’ subjective understanding of key aspects of the practice of anesthesiology. Statistically significant improvement was seen in the understanding of airway management, anesthetic pharmacology, basics of ultrasound, vascular access, anesthesiology subspecialties, and an understanding of anesthesiology residency. Overall, results were limited by our small sample size. CONCLUSION: Our elective allows medical students to explore anesthesiology early in their medical school career. After taking this course, students noted more familiarity with various topics in anesthesiology. Peer institutions lacking a similar course may consider using our experience to increase interest about the specialty of anesthesiology for future students. Dove 2023-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10693776/ /pubmed/38050578 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S427974 Text en © 2023 Walsh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Walsh, Kendra L
Yadav, Abhishek
Cradeur, Michael
Huang, Henry
Lee, Daniel
Owusu-Dapaah, Harry
Ji, Chao
Kendall, Mark C
Asher, Shyamal
Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology
title Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology
title_full Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology
title_fullStr Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology
title_full_unstemmed Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology
title_short Impact of a Preclinical Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective on the Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Anesthesiology
title_sort impact of a preclinical medical student anesthesiology elective on the attitudes and perceptions of medical students regarding anesthesiology
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10693776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38050578
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S427974
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