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Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study

Clinical practise in the ageing population is changing from organ-specific specialty care to holistic care. This is done through comprehensive geriatric assessment and multi-disciplinary team management. Hence, we adopted an approach consisting of multi-professional teachers teaching a Healthcare of...

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Autores principales: Ng, Zhi Ling, Mat Din, Hazwan, Zakaria, Nor Fadhlina, Inche Mat, Liyana Najwa, Wan Zukiman, Wan Zul Haikal, Md Shah, Anim, Daut, Ummi Nadira, Sallehuddin, Hakimah Mohammad
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8632039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34858926
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.743804
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author Ng, Zhi Ling
Mat Din, Hazwan
Zakaria, Nor Fadhlina
Inche Mat, Liyana Najwa
Wan Zukiman, Wan Zul Haikal
Md Shah, Anim
Daut, Ummi Nadira
Sallehuddin, Hakimah Mohammad
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Mat Din, Hazwan
Zakaria, Nor Fadhlina
Inche Mat, Liyana Najwa
Wan Zukiman, Wan Zul Haikal
Md Shah, Anim
Daut, Ummi Nadira
Sallehuddin, Hakimah Mohammad
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description Clinical practise in the ageing population is changing from organ-specific specialty care to holistic care. This is done through comprehensive geriatric assessment and multi-disciplinary team management. Hence, we adopted an approach consisting of multi-professional teachers teaching a Healthcare of Elderly Course (HEC), in a public university in Malaysia. We aimed to analyze the students' attitude, self-perceived competency and interest in geriatric medicine as a career before and after the course. We also investigated variables that might influence this interest among these students. All 96 students in the course were invited to participate in the survey. Sixty-eight (70.8%) completed both pre and post-course questionnaires. Although most students (93%) have a positive attitude (University of California at Los Angeles Geriatric Attitude Scale >3) toward older adults at baseline, it did not significantly increase post-course. We found that the mean scores for self-perceived competency increased from 3.62 (±0.76) to 3.81 (±0.56) post-course (p < 0.01). However, the students remained neutral with no significant change in the mean interest in pursuing a geriatric medicine career after the course. Students with higher self-perceived competency post-course were found to be more interested in geriatric medicine (β = 0.56, p < 0.001). In conclusion, the HEC in our centre could sustain a positive attitude and increase self-perceived competency in students. It is important to increase the preparedness of our graduates in managing older adults with frailty and multimorbidity. Future studies may involve inter-professional education of students from multiple disciplines undergoing the same course to nurture real-life collaborations in managing the ageing population.
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spelling pubmed-86320392021-12-01 Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study Ng, Zhi Ling Mat Din, Hazwan Zakaria, Nor Fadhlina Inche Mat, Liyana Najwa Wan Zukiman, Wan Zul Haikal Md Shah, Anim Daut, Ummi Nadira Sallehuddin, Hakimah Mohammad Front Public Health Public Health Clinical practise in the ageing population is changing from organ-specific specialty care to holistic care. This is done through comprehensive geriatric assessment and multi-disciplinary team management. Hence, we adopted an approach consisting of multi-professional teachers teaching a Healthcare of Elderly Course (HEC), in a public university in Malaysia. We aimed to analyze the students' attitude, self-perceived competency and interest in geriatric medicine as a career before and after the course. We also investigated variables that might influence this interest among these students. All 96 students in the course were invited to participate in the survey. Sixty-eight (70.8%) completed both pre and post-course questionnaires. Although most students (93%) have a positive attitude (University of California at Los Angeles Geriatric Attitude Scale >3) toward older adults at baseline, it did not significantly increase post-course. We found that the mean scores for self-perceived competency increased from 3.62 (±0.76) to 3.81 (±0.56) post-course (p < 0.01). However, the students remained neutral with no significant change in the mean interest in pursuing a geriatric medicine career after the course. Students with higher self-perceived competency post-course were found to be more interested in geriatric medicine (β = 0.56, p < 0.001). In conclusion, the HEC in our centre could sustain a positive attitude and increase self-perceived competency in students. It is important to increase the preparedness of our graduates in managing older adults with frailty and multimorbidity. Future studies may involve inter-professional education of students from multiple disciplines undergoing the same course to nurture real-life collaborations in managing the ageing population. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8632039/ /pubmed/34858926 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.743804 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ng, Mat Din, Zakaria, Inche Mat, Wan Zukiman, Md Shah, Daut and Sallehuddin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Ng, Zhi Ling
Mat Din, Hazwan
Zakaria, Nor Fadhlina
Inche Mat, Liyana Najwa
Wan Zukiman, Wan Zul Haikal
Md Shah, Anim
Daut, Ummi Nadira
Sallehuddin, Hakimah Mohammad
Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study
title Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study
title_full Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study
title_fullStr Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study
title_full_unstemmed Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study
title_short Implementation of a Healthcare of Elderly Course With Multi-Professional Teachers for Undergraduate Medical Students in a Public University in Malaysia—A Quasi-Experimental Pre and Post Study
title_sort implementation of a healthcare of elderly course with multi-professional teachers for undergraduate medical students in a public university in malaysia—a quasi-experimental pre and post study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8632039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34858926
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.743804
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