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Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Switzerland is facing an impending primary care workforce crisis since almost half of all primary care physicians are expected to retire in the next decade. Only a minority of medical students choose a primary care specialty, further deepening the workforce shortage. It is therefore esse...

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Autores principales: Chung, Christopher, Maisonneuve, Hubert, Pfarrwaller, Eva, Audétat, Marie-Claude, Birchmeier, Alain, Herzig, Lilli, Bischoff, Thomas, Sommer, Johanna, Haller, Dagmar M.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27628184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-016-0532-x
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author Chung, Christopher
Maisonneuve, Hubert
Pfarrwaller, Eva
Audétat, Marie-Claude
Birchmeier, Alain
Herzig, Lilli
Bischoff, Thomas
Sommer, Johanna
Haller, Dagmar M.
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Maisonneuve, Hubert
Pfarrwaller, Eva
Audétat, Marie-Claude
Birchmeier, Alain
Herzig, Lilli
Bischoff, Thomas
Sommer, Johanna
Haller, Dagmar M.
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description BACKGROUND: Switzerland is facing an impending primary care workforce crisis since almost half of all primary care physicians are expected to retire in the next decade. Only a minority of medical students choose a primary care specialty, further deepening the workforce shortage. It is therefore essential to identify ways to promote the choice of a primary care career. The aim of the present study was to explore students’ views about the undergraduate primary care teaching curriculum and different teaching formats, and to evaluate the possible impact of these views on students’ perceptions of primary care. METHODS: We surveyed fifth year medical students from the Medical Faculties in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland (n = 285) with a four sections electronic questionnaire. We carried out descriptive analyses presented as frequencies for categorical data, and means and/or medians for continuous data. RESULTS: The response rate was 43 %. Overall, primary care teaching had a positive impact on students’ image of primary care. In Lausanne, primary care curricular components were rated more positively than in Geneva. Curricular components that were not part of the primary care teaching, but were nevertheless cited by some students, were frequently perceived as having a negative impact. CONCLUSIONS: The primary care curriculum at Lausanne and Geneva Universities positively influences students’ perceptions of this discipline. However, there are shortcomings in both the structure and the content of both the primary care and hidden curriculum that may contribute to perpetuating a negative image of this specialization. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12875-016-0532-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-50245212016-09-20 Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study Chung, Christopher Maisonneuve, Hubert Pfarrwaller, Eva Audétat, Marie-Claude Birchmeier, Alain Herzig, Lilli Bischoff, Thomas Sommer, Johanna Haller, Dagmar M. BMC Fam Pract Research Article BACKGROUND: Switzerland is facing an impending primary care workforce crisis since almost half of all primary care physicians are expected to retire in the next decade. Only a minority of medical students choose a primary care specialty, further deepening the workforce shortage. It is therefore essential to identify ways to promote the choice of a primary care career. The aim of the present study was to explore students’ views about the undergraduate primary care teaching curriculum and different teaching formats, and to evaluate the possible impact of these views on students’ perceptions of primary care. METHODS: We surveyed fifth year medical students from the Medical Faculties in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland (n = 285) with a four sections electronic questionnaire. We carried out descriptive analyses presented as frequencies for categorical data, and means and/or medians for continuous data. RESULTS: The response rate was 43 %. Overall, primary care teaching had a positive impact on students’ image of primary care. In Lausanne, primary care curricular components were rated more positively than in Geneva. Curricular components that were not part of the primary care teaching, but were nevertheless cited by some students, were frequently perceived as having a negative impact. CONCLUSIONS: The primary care curriculum at Lausanne and Geneva Universities positively influences students’ perceptions of this discipline. However, there are shortcomings in both the structure and the content of both the primary care and hidden curriculum that may contribute to perpetuating a negative image of this specialization. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12875-016-0532-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5024521/ /pubmed/27628184 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-016-0532-x Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Chung, Christopher
Maisonneuve, Hubert
Pfarrwaller, Eva
Audétat, Marie-Claude
Birchmeier, Alain
Herzig, Lilli
Bischoff, Thomas
Sommer, Johanna
Haller, Dagmar M.
Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study
title Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study
title_full Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study
title_short Impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study
title_sort impact of the primary care curriculum and its teaching formats on medical students’ perception of primary care: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27628184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-016-0532-x
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