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Theme: Clinical |
Abstract Title | ||
Using summer school design to approach the integrated curriculum: teaching and assessing practical skills |
Authors: |
Anca Dana Buzoianu Ofelia Mosteanu Teodora Atena Pop Soimita Suciu Valentin Muntean |
Institutions: | "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
Implementation of an integrated curriculum for training in advanced clinical skills represents an unmet need in most Romanian medical universities.
Our aim was to design an integrated curriculum module using a summer school design as field-testing with both students and lecturers involved regarding any improvement in teaching and assessing clinical skills.
The summer school was national and 52 students and 15 teachers from 5 Romanian medical universities attended.
12 preclinical (anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, histopathology, pharmacology) and clinical experts (clinical cardiology, heart and vascular surgery) co-operated in order to integrate the practical skills training into the pre-existing cardiovascular medical curriculum.
The chosen lectures were: thoracic pain, heart murmurs, palpitations, headache and dyspnea.
The experts came from an H-type curriculum background.
The summer school preparation experts team work evolved form isolation to sharing and correlation.
The integrated curriculum program included lectures, case reports, workshops: EKG, heart ultrasound, anatomy, histopathology and one simulation session of heart murmurs. Both students and lecturers considered the experience worth repeating.
The simulation session was the most popular and 62.3 % of the students would have preferred more practical sessions.
The workshops and case reports were more popular than lectures.
88.7% of the involved experts would change their way of teaching after the summer school experience.
The experts’ role was crucial in structuring the summer school integrated curriculum design.
Introducing an interdisciplinary training and a corresponding practical skills development in a medical curriculum is feasible.