The Beyond the Books Program: Improving Medical Student Attitudes Toward the Underserved

Purpose: To determine the impact of the Beyond the Books (BTB) program, a short-term pre-clinical intervention, on medical student attitudes toward the underserved (MSATU). Methods: BTB was evaluated through a prospective cohort study using the validated MSATU questionnaire. Results: There were no s...

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Autores principales: Briggs, Aaron M., Wang, Stephen Y., Bhowmik, Subasish, Wasag, Jacob, Pinto-Powell, Roshini C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2018
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30283854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2018.0015
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description Purpose: To determine the impact of the Beyond the Books (BTB) program, a short-term pre-clinical intervention, on medical student attitudes toward the underserved (MSATU). Methods: BTB was evaluated through a prospective cohort study using the validated MSATU questionnaire. Results: There were no significant MSATU total score differences between BTB students (n=13) and student controls (n=29) at the beginning of the program. At the program's conclusion, BTB participant MSATU total scores were significantly higher than those of controls (p<0.001). Conclusion: Although limited by selection methods, our MSATU data support the capability of short-term pre-clinical interventions to significantly improve medical student attitudes toward underserved communities.
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spelling pubmed-60719082018-10-03 The Beyond the Books Program: Improving Medical Student Attitudes Toward the Underserved Briggs, Aaron M. Wang, Stephen Y. Bhowmik, Subasish Wasag, Jacob Pinto-Powell, Roshini C. Health Equity Short Report Purpose: To determine the impact of the Beyond the Books (BTB) program, a short-term pre-clinical intervention, on medical student attitudes toward the underserved (MSATU). Methods: BTB was evaluated through a prospective cohort study using the validated MSATU questionnaire. Results: There were no significant MSATU total score differences between BTB students (n=13) and student controls (n=29) at the beginning of the program. At the program's conclusion, BTB participant MSATU total scores were significantly higher than those of controls (p<0.001). Conclusion: Although limited by selection methods, our MSATU data support the capability of short-term pre-clinical interventions to significantly improve medical student attitudes toward underserved communities. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2018-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6071908/ /pubmed/30283854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/heq.2018.0015 Text en © Aaron M. Briggs et al. 2018; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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