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Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education
BACKGROUND: The Global Medical Student Partnership (GMSP) is a medical student-led international initiative to promote accessible global health learning. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the GMSP program in meeting its learning objectives. METHODS: Canadian and international medical...
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Canadian Medical Education Journal
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7749681/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33349758 http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.69339 |
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author | Samuels, Hannah Rojas-Luengas, Vanessa Zereshkian, Arman Deng, Shirley Moodie, Jenna Veinot, Paula Bowry, Ashna Law, Marcus |
author_facet | Samuels, Hannah Rojas-Luengas, Vanessa Zereshkian, Arman Deng, Shirley Moodie, Jenna Veinot, Paula Bowry, Ashna Law, Marcus |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Global Medical Student Partnership (GMSP) is a medical student-led international initiative to promote accessible global health learning. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the GMSP program in meeting its learning objectives. METHODS: Canadian and international medical student pairs met online monthly (January-May 2018) to discuss global health-related medical cases. Students then reviewed cases with local GMSP peers and faculty experts. A mixed-methods study was performed to evaluate whether the objectives of the program had been achieved. 26 of 32 (81.3%) students completed a questionnaire, and 13 (40.6%) also participated in one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were used to analyze students’ perspectives on skill development through GMSP. RESULTS: GMSP students agreed or strongly agreed that international collaboration and communication skills were more important to them following program participation (92.3%, 92.3% respectively). Many expressed that after GMSP, they knew more about their healthcare system, practices abroad and how to solve complex health issues (92.3%, 84.6%, 61.5% respectively). Qualitative data showed GMSP improved students’ communication and presentation skills, provided a foundation for international relationships, fostered appraisal of diverse health systems, and furthered students’ understanding of health advocacy. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrate that GMSP met its original objectives by providing students with opportunities to engage in international collaborations and to further develop their skills in advocacy, communication, and health-systems research. This program may be an important addition to medical education as it makes use of technology and peer-to-peer exchange to enable global health learning. |
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spelling | pubmed-77496812020-12-20 Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education Samuels, Hannah Rojas-Luengas, Vanessa Zereshkian, Arman Deng, Shirley Moodie, Jenna Veinot, Paula Bowry, Ashna Law, Marcus Can Med Educ J Brief Reports BACKGROUND: The Global Medical Student Partnership (GMSP) is a medical student-led international initiative to promote accessible global health learning. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the GMSP program in meeting its learning objectives. METHODS: Canadian and international medical student pairs met online monthly (January-May 2018) to discuss global health-related medical cases. Students then reviewed cases with local GMSP peers and faculty experts. A mixed-methods study was performed to evaluate whether the objectives of the program had been achieved. 26 of 32 (81.3%) students completed a questionnaire, and 13 (40.6%) also participated in one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were used to analyze students’ perspectives on skill development through GMSP. RESULTS: GMSP students agreed or strongly agreed that international collaboration and communication skills were more important to them following program participation (92.3%, 92.3% respectively). Many expressed that after GMSP, they knew more about their healthcare system, practices abroad and how to solve complex health issues (92.3%, 84.6%, 61.5% respectively). Qualitative data showed GMSP improved students’ communication and presentation skills, provided a foundation for international relationships, fostered appraisal of diverse health systems, and furthered students’ understanding of health advocacy. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrate that GMSP met its original objectives by providing students with opportunities to engage in international collaborations and to further develop their skills in advocacy, communication, and health-systems research. This program may be an important addition to medical education as it makes use of technology and peer-to-peer exchange to enable global health learning. Canadian Medical Education Journal 2020-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7749681/ /pubmed/33349758 http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.69339 Text en © 2020 Samuels, Rojas-Luengas, Zereshkian, Deng, Moodie, Veinot, Bowry, Law; licensee Synergies Partners http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Journal Systems article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
spellingShingle | Brief Reports Samuels, Hannah Rojas-Luengas, Vanessa Zereshkian, Arman Deng, Shirley Moodie, Jenna Veinot, Paula Bowry, Ashna Law, Marcus Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education |
title | Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education |
title_full | Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education |
title_short | Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Global Medical Student Partnership program in undergraduate medical education |
title_sort | evaluation of the effectiveness of the global medical student partnership program in undergraduate medical education |
topic | Brief Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7749681/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33349758 http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.69339 |
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