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Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology

BACKGROUND: Urological education is as important as surgical training for undergraduates. However, students in undergraduate medical schools have less exposure to urology as their curriculum focuses more on clinical skills, particularly community-based healthcare for a super-aging society. This stud...

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Autores principales: Kimura, Tomokazu, Kojo, Kosuke, Shiga, Masanobu, Chihara, Ichiro, Ikeda, Atsushi, Kandori, Shuya, Kojima, Takahiro, Haruta, Junji, Nishiyama, Hiroyuki
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34159260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211020750
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author Kimura, Tomokazu
Kojo, Kosuke
Shiga, Masanobu
Chihara, Ichiro
Ikeda, Atsushi
Kandori, Shuya
Kojima, Takahiro
Haruta, Junji
Nishiyama, Hiroyuki
author_facet Kimura, Tomokazu
Kojo, Kosuke
Shiga, Masanobu
Chihara, Ichiro
Ikeda, Atsushi
Kandori, Shuya
Kojima, Takahiro
Haruta, Junji
Nishiyama, Hiroyuki
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description BACKGROUND: Urological education is as important as surgical training for undergraduates. However, students in undergraduate medical schools have less exposure to urology as their curriculum focuses more on clinical skills, particularly community-based healthcare for a super-aging society. This study aimed to evaluate whether urology-related hands-on training could increase the interest of undergraduate medical students in urology. METHODS: A 1-day elective program in urological surgery at the University of Tsukuba, particularly in robotic, laparoscopic, and endoscopic surgeries, was offered to 85 fourth-year medical students from 2018 to 2020, prior to their clinical clerkship. The average age of the participants was 22 (range: 21-25) years. We used a scoring system that comprised 1-5 Likert-type items to assess training activity, interest in surgery, and interest in urology before and after the course. RESULTS: Before attending the program, the average scores of interest in urology were 3.53 in 2018, 3.15 in 2019, and 3.00 in 2020. The scores in surgery increased after the program; however, this was not significantly different from scores prior to the program. However, the average interest scores in urology were significantly increased to 3.91 ± 0.63 (P < .05), 3.88 ± 0.58 (P < .01), and 4.00 ± 0.61 (P < 0.01) in 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively. Total likely scores of this program in 2018, 2019, and 2020 were 4.59, 4.76, and 4.88, respectively, indicating a motivation to study surgery and urology during clinical clerkship. CONCLUSIONS: Urological hands-on training facilitated interest in urology in medical students prior to their clinical clerkship.
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spelling pubmed-81861112021-06-21 Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology Kimura, Tomokazu Kojo, Kosuke Shiga, Masanobu Chihara, Ichiro Ikeda, Atsushi Kandori, Shuya Kojima, Takahiro Haruta, Junji Nishiyama, Hiroyuki J Med Educ Curric Dev Original Research BACKGROUND: Urological education is as important as surgical training for undergraduates. However, students in undergraduate medical schools have less exposure to urology as their curriculum focuses more on clinical skills, particularly community-based healthcare for a super-aging society. This study aimed to evaluate whether urology-related hands-on training could increase the interest of undergraduate medical students in urology. METHODS: A 1-day elective program in urological surgery at the University of Tsukuba, particularly in robotic, laparoscopic, and endoscopic surgeries, was offered to 85 fourth-year medical students from 2018 to 2020, prior to their clinical clerkship. The average age of the participants was 22 (range: 21-25) years. We used a scoring system that comprised 1-5 Likert-type items to assess training activity, interest in surgery, and interest in urology before and after the course. RESULTS: Before attending the program, the average scores of interest in urology were 3.53 in 2018, 3.15 in 2019, and 3.00 in 2020. The scores in surgery increased after the program; however, this was not significantly different from scores prior to the program. However, the average interest scores in urology were significantly increased to 3.91 ± 0.63 (P < .05), 3.88 ± 0.58 (P < .01), and 4.00 ± 0.61 (P < 0.01) in 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively. Total likely scores of this program in 2018, 2019, and 2020 were 4.59, 4.76, and 4.88, respectively, indicating a motivation to study surgery and urology during clinical clerkship. CONCLUSIONS: Urological hands-on training facilitated interest in urology in medical students prior to their clinical clerkship. SAGE Publications 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8186111/ /pubmed/34159260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211020750 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Kimura, Tomokazu
Kojo, Kosuke
Shiga, Masanobu
Chihara, Ichiro
Ikeda, Atsushi
Kandori, Shuya
Kojima, Takahiro
Haruta, Junji
Nishiyama, Hiroyuki
Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology
title Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology
title_full Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology
title_fullStr Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology
title_full_unstemmed Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology
title_short Impact of Early Exposure to Simulation Program on Undergraduate Medical Students’ Interest in Urology
title_sort impact of early exposure to simulation program on undergraduate medical students’ interest in urology
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34159260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211020750
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