Submission ID 77584
| Code | OE-5-2 |
|---|---|
| At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: | |
| Category | Medical Education |
| Type | Oral |
| Will the presenter be a: | Student |
| Title | The "Meds" in Medicine: an Interprofessional Internal Medicine Clerkship Pharmacotherapy Course |
| Background/Purpose | There is currently no formal teaching in clinical pharmacotherapy during core internal medicine clerkship rotations for medical students at the University of Toronto. Literature suggests that medical students make common, but avoidable prescription errors, regardless of the length of training acquired on their internal medicine rotations and formal pharmacotherapy training in pre-clinical years. We designed a case-based pharmacotherapy seminar series delivered by clinical pharmacists during internal medicine clerkship rotation at two partially affiliated teaching sites in order to address this gap. This initiative aims to improve clerks' clinical pharmacotherapy knowledge by attaining 70% or more on internally validated tests administered as part of this seminar series. |
| Methods | This study will follow a pre- and post- intervention design. Outcome measure is aggregate score on internally validated knowledge tests as a proxy for clinical pharmacotherapy knowledge. Process measure is the attendance rate for the series. Net Promoter Score and Likert scale will be used to assess perceived value of the program as balancing measures. Questionnaires and tests will be administered to clerks before and after each seminar as well as the full course during their internal medicine rotations. We will trial this intervention over several rotations totalling up to 12 months. Results will be analyzed descriptively and narratively synthesized. |
| Results | Data collection is ongoing, and findings will be available at the time of presentation. |
| Discussion | Through this pharmacotherapy series embedded within the clerkship internal medicine rotation, we aim to improve the medical clerks' clinical pharmacotherapy knowledge and application. |
| Keyword 1 | medical education |
| Keyword 2 | pharmacotherapy |
| Keyword 3 | interprofessional |
| Abstract content most relevant to: (check all that apply) | Undergraduate Medical Education |
| Abstract Track - First Choice | Curriculum |
| Curriculum | Case-Based Integrated Inter-Professional Quality improvement |
| Authors | Ming Li Calandra Li Clara Healey David Antowan Reenika Aggarwal Melody Truong Katie Palmer Nazia Sharfuddin Nazia Sharfuddin Jimin Lee |
