Accepted Type
Facilitated and Dedicated Poster
Code
LP7 - 08
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Innovation
Will the presenter be a:
Student
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
Development of an Online Rural Medicine Self-Learning Module (SLM) for Medical Students
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
There is a discrepancy between the number of Canadians living in rural communities versus the number of physicians available to meet their health needs. Educational strategies aimed to rectify this imbalance have included mandatory undergraduate medical rural rotations. However, standardized training methods designed to prepare students for different clinical and cultural interactions are limited. In response, we developed and implemented an online pre-departure SLM for first-year medical students.
Summary of the Innovation
An interdisciplinary team including distributed medical education and social accountability experts collaborated to create a pre-departure training rural SLM for first-year medical students. The SLM's content focuses on cultural safety and educational design includes video interviews, clinical scenarios, quizzes and reflective exercises. 136 students voluntarily completed the pre and post-SLM surveys, which included rating scales and comment boxes. Post-SLM items related to rural medicine interest and self-assessed knowledge, showed an increase in all categories, including interest in pursuing a career in rural medicine for students who had lived in rural areas (M=3.4; M= 3.5) and those who did not (M= 2.8; M= 3.0). Student comments were largely positive, contributing to enhancing the effectiveness of the module for future students.
Conclusion
With the interdisciplinary collaboration of numerous experts, we discovered that a comprehensive virtual pre-departure training SLM can be developed and successfully implemented to promote interest about rural communities and rural medicine. This standardized training can be expanded to other Canadian medical schools to help prepare medical students for rural medicine experiences and ultimately increase interest in rural medicine and related career opportunities.
Keyword 1
Rural Medicine
Keyword 2
Virtual
Keyword 3
Training
Level of Training
Undergraduate
Abstract Themes
Curriculum
Curriculum
- Case-Based
- General
Additional Theme (First choice)
Distributed Medical Education
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Undergraduate
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Celina DeBiasio
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
