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Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment
BACKGROUND: Clinical decision making in oncology is based on both inter- and multidisciplinary approach. Hence teaching future doctors involved in oncology or general health practice is crucial. The aim of the Vienna Summer School on Oncology (VSSO) as an international, integrated, undergraduate onc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5461756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28587603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-0922-3 |
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author | Lütgendorf-Caucig, Carola Kaiser, Philipp A. Machacek, Alexandra Waldstein, Cora Pötter, Richard Löffler-Stastka, Henriette |
author_facet | Lütgendorf-Caucig, Carola Kaiser, Philipp A. Machacek, Alexandra Waldstein, Cora Pötter, Richard Löffler-Stastka, Henriette |
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description | BACKGROUND: Clinical decision making in oncology is based on both inter- and multidisciplinary approach. Hence teaching future doctors involved in oncology or general health practice is crucial. The aim of the Vienna Summer School on Oncology (VSSO) as an international, integrated, undergraduate oncology course is to teach medical students interdisciplinary team communication and application of treatment concepts/algorithms in a multidisciplinary setting. METHOD: The teaching is based on an inter- and multidisciplinary faculty and a multimodal education approach to address different learning styles. The participants rated their satisfaction of the program voluntarily after finishing the course according to a grading scale from one (not good) to five (very good). The learning success was assessed by a compulsory pre-VSSO and post-VSSO single choice questionnaire. RESULTS: Program organisation was rated with a mean score of 4.47 out of 5.0 (SD 0.51), composition of the program and range of topics with a mean score of 4.68 (SD 0.58) and all teachers with a mean score of 4.36 (SD 0.40) points. Student evaluation at the beginning and end of the program indicated significant knowledge acquisition –i.e., general aspects of cancer: median 8.75 points (IQR 7.5–9.4) vs.10.0 points (IQR 9.4–10.0) p = 0.005; specific aspects of cancer: median 4.87 points (IQR 3.33–5.71) vs. 8.72 points (IQR 6.78–9.49) p ≤ 0.001, respectively. CONCLUSION: Even though the participants represent a selection of students with special interest in cancer, the results of the VSSO indicate the benefit of an inter- and multidisciplinary teaching approach within an oncology module. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12909-017-0922-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-54617562017-06-07 Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment Lütgendorf-Caucig, Carola Kaiser, Philipp A. Machacek, Alexandra Waldstein, Cora Pötter, Richard Löffler-Stastka, Henriette BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Clinical decision making in oncology is based on both inter- and multidisciplinary approach. Hence teaching future doctors involved in oncology or general health practice is crucial. The aim of the Vienna Summer School on Oncology (VSSO) as an international, integrated, undergraduate oncology course is to teach medical students interdisciplinary team communication and application of treatment concepts/algorithms in a multidisciplinary setting. METHOD: The teaching is based on an inter- and multidisciplinary faculty and a multimodal education approach to address different learning styles. The participants rated their satisfaction of the program voluntarily after finishing the course according to a grading scale from one (not good) to five (very good). The learning success was assessed by a compulsory pre-VSSO and post-VSSO single choice questionnaire. RESULTS: Program organisation was rated with a mean score of 4.47 out of 5.0 (SD 0.51), composition of the program and range of topics with a mean score of 4.68 (SD 0.58) and all teachers with a mean score of 4.36 (SD 0.40) points. Student evaluation at the beginning and end of the program indicated significant knowledge acquisition –i.e., general aspects of cancer: median 8.75 points (IQR 7.5–9.4) vs.10.0 points (IQR 9.4–10.0) p = 0.005; specific aspects of cancer: median 4.87 points (IQR 3.33–5.71) vs. 8.72 points (IQR 6.78–9.49) p ≤ 0.001, respectively. CONCLUSION: Even though the participants represent a selection of students with special interest in cancer, the results of the VSSO indicate the benefit of an inter- and multidisciplinary teaching approach within an oncology module. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12909-017-0922-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5461756/ /pubmed/28587603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-0922-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lütgendorf-Caucig, Carola Kaiser, Philipp A. Machacek, Alexandra Waldstein, Cora Pötter, Richard Löffler-Stastka, Henriette Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment |
title | Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment |
title_full | Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment |
title_fullStr | Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment |
title_full_unstemmed | Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment |
title_short | Vienna Summer School on Oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment |
title_sort | vienna summer school on oncology: how to teach clinical decision making in a multidisciplinary environment |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5461756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28587603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-0922-3 |
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