Accepted Type
Dedicated Poster
Code
LP13 - 05
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
Poster
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Jr. Faculty (less than 5 years in practice)
Affiliation
Title
Assessment of Student Perceptions of the Importance of Embryology in a Medical Curriculum
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Basic science content hours have been reduced in medical school curricula over the years and it is therefore imperative that content covered be clinically relevant to students. The purpose of this study is to assess the student perspective of the importance of teaching and learning embryology in the medical curriculum.
Methods
At the end of first year, medical students at the University of Manitoba (n=65) completed a questionnaire containing likert scale and open-ended questions regarding the embryology curriculum at the University of Manitoba.
Results
The majority of students agree and strongly agree that embryology is an important part of medical training (53%, 20%) and helps to better understand clinical conditions (33%, 40%) especially those with future ambitions related to OBGYN specialties. Students ranked topics relating to heart development, nervous system development and eye development as most important to learn in the medical curriculum. Interestingly, when students ranked those same topics to clinical relevancy urogenital development and pregnancy joined those previously mentioned as most important. In open-ended questions, students discussed the need to highlight the clinical relevance of embryology more throughout the first year curriculum. Additionally, many students commented that since very little formal assessment related to embryology topics students put little effort into learning and understanding this information.
Conclusion
While students understand that the study of embryology is important, a void in the teaching clinical relevance and a need to develop more appropriate assessment strategies to promote learning of embryology topics has been identified.
Keyword 1
Embryology
Keyword 2
Medical Curriculum
Keyword 3
Medical Education
Level of Training
General
Abstract Themes
Teaching and learning
Teaching and Learning
Quality improvement
Additional Theme (First choice)
Undergraduate
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Alexa Hryniuk
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
