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In-Person, Remote, or Hybrid Instruction? A Quality Improvement Assessment of a Six Week Interprofessional Education Pathway Program for Undergraduate Pre-Health Students

There is an emphasis on increasing the diversity of healthcare providers with the goal of reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities. To support this initiative, pathway programs were designed to provide educational and career support to students belonging to racial/ethnic minorities...

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Autores principales: McCleary-Gaddy, Asia, Yu, Erica Tengyuan, Spears, Robert D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553922
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122399
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description There is an emphasis on increasing the diversity of healthcare providers with the goal of reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities. To support this initiative, pathway programs were designed to provide educational and career support to students belonging to racial/ethnic minorities or those who have challenges applying to or entering health professions. As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, pathway programs have assumed various instructional delivery formats (e.g., face to face, virtual, hybrid) with little knowledge on the satisfaction of such methods. The current preliminary study examines whether in person, virtual, or hybrid learning is most effective for underrepresented pre-health undergraduate students who are engaged in a six-week interprofessional health pathway program. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected at one time point towards the end of the program when it was offered in person, virtually, and in hybrid format. Results revealed that the pre-health pathway program received highest satisfaction when presented in a hybrid format and least satisfaction when presented in virtual instruction. Qualitative data suggests that virtual instruction increases feelings of isolation and complicates educational information due to the limitations of virtual streaming. Implications for pathway design are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-97781652022-12-23 In-Person, Remote, or Hybrid Instruction? A Quality Improvement Assessment of a Six Week Interprofessional Education Pathway Program for Undergraduate Pre-Health Students McCleary-Gaddy, Asia Yu, Erica Tengyuan Spears, Robert D. Healthcare (Basel) Article There is an emphasis on increasing the diversity of healthcare providers with the goal of reducing health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities. To support this initiative, pathway programs were designed to provide educational and career support to students belonging to racial/ethnic minorities or those who have challenges applying to or entering health professions. As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, pathway programs have assumed various instructional delivery formats (e.g., face to face, virtual, hybrid) with little knowledge on the satisfaction of such methods. The current preliminary study examines whether in person, virtual, or hybrid learning is most effective for underrepresented pre-health undergraduate students who are engaged in a six-week interprofessional health pathway program. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected at one time point towards the end of the program when it was offered in person, virtually, and in hybrid format. Results revealed that the pre-health pathway program received highest satisfaction when presented in a hybrid format and least satisfaction when presented in virtual instruction. Qualitative data suggests that virtual instruction increases feelings of isolation and complicates educational information due to the limitations of virtual streaming. Implications for pathway design are discussed. MDPI 2022-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9778165/ /pubmed/36553922 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122399 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553922
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122399
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