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The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences
Background: Short-term experiences in global health (STEGH) are increasingly common in medical education, as they can provide learners with opportunities for service, learning, and sharing perspectives. Academic institutions need high-quality preparatory curricula and mentorship to prepare learners...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6084492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30081760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2018.1503914 |
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author | Jacquet, Gabrielle A. Umoren, Rachel A. Hayward, Alison S. Myers, Justin G. Modi, Payal Dunlop, Stephen J. Sarfaty, Suzanne Hauswald, Mark Tupesis, Janis P. |
author_facet | Jacquet, Gabrielle A. Umoren, Rachel A. Hayward, Alison S. Myers, Justin G. Modi, Payal Dunlop, Stephen J. Sarfaty, Suzanne Hauswald, Mark Tupesis, Janis P. |
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description | Background: Short-term experiences in global health (STEGH) are increasingly common in medical education, as they can provide learners with opportunities for service, learning, and sharing perspectives. Academic institutions need high-quality preparatory curricula and mentorship to prepare learners for potential challenges in ethics, cultural sensitivity, and personal safety; however, availability and quality of these are variable. Objective: The objective of this study is to create and evaluate an open-access, interactive massive open online course (MOOC) that prepares learners to safely and effectively participate in STEGH, permits flexible and asynchronous learning, is free of charge, and provides a certificate upon successful completion. Methods: Global health experts from 8 countries, 42 institutions, and 7 specialties collaborated to create The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health (PGGH): the first course of this kind on the edX platform. Demographic data, pre- and posttests, and course evaluations were collected and analyzed. Results: Within its first year, PGGH enrolled 5935 learners from 163 countries. In a limited sample of 109 learners, mean posttest scores were significantly improved (p < 0.01). In the course’s second year, 213 sampled learners had significant improvement (p < 0.001). Conclusion: We created and evaluated the first interactive, asynchronous, free-of-charge global health preparation MOOC. The course has had significant interest from US-based and international learners, and posttest scores have shown significant improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-60844922018-08-14 The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences Jacquet, Gabrielle A. Umoren, Rachel A. Hayward, Alison S. Myers, Justin G. Modi, Payal Dunlop, Stephen J. Sarfaty, Suzanne Hauswald, Mark Tupesis, Janis P. Med Educ Online Short Communication Background: Short-term experiences in global health (STEGH) are increasingly common in medical education, as they can provide learners with opportunities for service, learning, and sharing perspectives. Academic institutions need high-quality preparatory curricula and mentorship to prepare learners for potential challenges in ethics, cultural sensitivity, and personal safety; however, availability and quality of these are variable. Objective: The objective of this study is to create and evaluate an open-access, interactive massive open online course (MOOC) that prepares learners to safely and effectively participate in STEGH, permits flexible and asynchronous learning, is free of charge, and provides a certificate upon successful completion. Methods: Global health experts from 8 countries, 42 institutions, and 7 specialties collaborated to create The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health (PGGH): the first course of this kind on the edX platform. Demographic data, pre- and posttests, and course evaluations were collected and analyzed. Results: Within its first year, PGGH enrolled 5935 learners from 163 countries. In a limited sample of 109 learners, mean posttest scores were significantly improved (p < 0.01). In the course’s second year, 213 sampled learners had significant improvement (p < 0.001). Conclusion: We created and evaluated the first interactive, asynchronous, free-of-charge global health preparation MOOC. The course has had significant interest from US-based and international learners, and posttest scores have shown significant improvement. Taylor & Francis 2018-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6084492/ /pubmed/30081760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2018.1503914 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 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. |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Jacquet, Gabrielle A. Umoren, Rachel A. Hayward, Alison S. Myers, Justin G. Modi, Payal Dunlop, Stephen J. Sarfaty, Suzanne Hauswald, Mark Tupesis, Janis P. The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences |
title | The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences |
title_full | The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences |
title_fullStr | The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences |
title_full_unstemmed | The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences |
title_short | The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences |
title_sort | practitioner’s guide to global health: an interactive, online, open-access curriculum preparing medical learners for global health experiences |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6084492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30081760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2018.1503914 |
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