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Academic Skills Building through Global Health Caley Satterfield, MEd; Premal Patel, MD, MSc; Matthew Dacso, MD, MSc and Christen Miller, MPAff Center for Global Health Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, U.S.A. Medical curriculum both in the United States and abroad is lacking in the cri6cal area of educa6ng students in the design, implementa6on, and dissemina6on of a scholarly project. Yet increasingly students are expected to perform these tasks. Research exposure has been shown to increase the likelihood a student will follow an academic medicine career track, have beBer employment opportuni6es, develop advanced cri6cal thinking skills and reasoning, and will improve research ac6vity throughout their career (Murdoch et al., 2010; Weston, Mullan, & McLennan, 2010). Commissions from across the globe, tasked with improving medical educa6on, have cited increased research skills as a primary goal (Burgoyne, O’Flynn & Boylan, 2010). For medical educators, it is important to develop sound research skills in our students in order for them to remain compe66ve and become ableminded clinicianscien6sts. Medical students are urged to complete research elec6ves and projects during their undergraduate careers to make them more compe66ve for residency placement. Yet there is no formal curricular mechanism in place to teach medical students the skills required to develop, implement, and disseminate findings. The authors would like to express our thanks to Dr. Karen Szauter at UTMB for her extraordinary contribu6ons to the development of the online modules on abstract and poster development. We also would like to thank the University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine Academy of Health Science Educa6on Small Grants Program for providing grant funding to support development and implementa6on of the Academic Skills Building through Global Health online module project at UTMB. Contact: Caley A. SaBerfield, MEd Assistant Director Center for Global Health Educa6on University of Texas Medical Branch [email protected] Burgoyne, L.N., O’Flynn, S., & Boylan, G.B. (2010). Undergraduate medical research: The student perspec6ve. Medical Educa+on Online, 15. doi: 10.3402/meo.v15i0.5212 MurdochEaton, D., Drewery, S., Elton, S., Emmerson, C., Marshall, M., Smith, J.,… & WhiBle, S. (2010). What do medical students understand by research and research skills? Iden6fying research opportuni6es within undergraduate projects. Medical Teacher, 32, e152e160. doi: 10.3109/01421591003657493 Academic Year Before 2012 20112012 20122013 20132014 20142015 Rota6on Ac6vi6es Clinical Shadowing or Bench Research • Scholarly Project • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium • Scholarly Project • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium • Scholarly Project • Mentor Mee6ngs • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium • Scholarly Project • Mentor Mee6ngs • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium Training • Global Health Lectures (broad topics/pretravel) • Health and Safety Lecture (pre travel) • UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pretravel) • 1 Hour lecture on developing an abstract and poster (posttravel) • 1 Hour demonstra6on on using Stata (posttravel) • UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pretravel) • 1 Hour workshop on Scholarly Project Development (pretravel) • 1 Hour workshop on Abstract and Poster Design (pretravel) • 1 Hour refresher workshop on Abstract and Poster Design (posttravel) • UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pretravel) • Mentorship Mee6ngs (pre and posttravel) • Academic Skills Building through Global Health Module Series • Module 1Developing a Scholarly Project (pretravel) • Module 2Implemen6ng a Scholarly Project Abroad (pretravel) • Module 3Developing an Abstract (during and post travel) • Module 4Developing a Poster (posttravel) • UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pretravel) • Mentorship Mee6ngs (pre and posttravel) • Academic Skills Building through Global Health Module Series • Module 1Developing a Scholarly Project (pre travel) • Module 2Implemen6ng a Scholarly Project Abroad (pretravel) • Module 3Developing an Abstract (during and posttravel) • Module 4Developing a Poster (posttravel) Outcomes • Mostly voluntourism ac6vi6es, no scholarly work • Not enough training on developing abstracts and posters • Received poor quality abstracts and posters • Many ques6ons to staff about how to develop abstracts and posters • Fewer problems than 20112012, but s6ll many ques6ons to staff on developing abstracts and posters • Much beBer abstracts and posters • Much beBer abstracts and posters than previous year • Fewer ques6ons to faculty and staff • Some modules were delayed being released to students due to 6me constraints • Some mentor input, but mentorship component poorly implemented due to 6me constraints PLANS • Summer 2015 data collec6on to compare abstract quality • Interviews and Focus groups to gain consensus between students and mentors on prepara6on • BeBer implementa6on of mentorship component Evolution of Academic Skills Building Project Academic Skills Building through Global Health is a program designed for first year medical students enrolled in global health preceptorships at UTMB. UTMB sends approximately 50 first year medical students on global health rota6ons every year. The program requires students to work with interna6onal collaborators to develop a scholarly project to complete while on an interna6onal rota6on. Students then develop an abstract and present a poster at the annual UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium. Students are assigned a mentor for their project and complete four online modules. The module topics include: Developing a Scholarly Project, Implemen6ng a Scholarly Project Abroad, Developing an Abstract, and Developing a Poster. 2013 Topics 2014 Topics Cardiometabolic Side Effects Associated with 2 nd Line An6retroviral Therapy at the Mbagathi District Hospital Comprehensive Care Clinic To assess beliefs, related to the adop6on of former street children, among community members around Maua, Kenya in summer 2014 Effects of the Quan6ty of Antenatal Malaria Prophylaxis on Birth Weight and Maternal Anemia in Ghana Baseline study of prehospital care in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic The Prevalence of Depression in Adult Pa6ents Undergoing Long Term Hemodialysis Treatments at Buen Samaritano Hospital Baseline surveillance for a water and sanita6on hygiene (WASH) Community Health Club in the Bateyes of the Dominican Republic Recombinase Polymerase Amplifica6on: A new lowcost Molecular Method to Diagnose Fascioliasis in low Resource Semngs Evalua6ng the educa6onal effec6veness on nutri6on and public health prac6ces of El Comedor The Use of Physical Therapy to Manage Leprosy Deformi6es Factors associated with s6llbirth in the Greater Accra Region in 2014: A cross sec6onal study Cumula6ve Malaria Trends of Prevalence, Procedure, and Management in Nyakibale Hospital, Rukungiri, Uganda HIV/TB Clinical Mentorship Program increases clinical detec6on of smear nega6ve TB in Kenya Regulatory Tcell Func6onality in Strongyloides Stercoralis Infec6on HIV/TB Clinical Mentorship Program increases clinical detec6on of smear nega6ve TB in Kenya The Rise of Street Children in Maua, Kenya: A CrossSec6onal Study Prevalence of Chikungunya virus in febrile pa6ents in the Dominican Republic Reproduc6ve Behaviors of Women in Quito, Ecuador Ambient air pollu6on and acute respiratory infec6ons in Ecuadorian children Examples of Student Project Topics What is Academic Skills Building through Global Health? Why is it important? Acknowledgements References Module Screenshots
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Academic Skills Building through Global Health Caley Satterfield, MEd; Premal Patel, MD, MSc; Matthew Dacso, MD, MSc and Christen Miller, MPAff
Center for Global Health Education, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, U.S.A.
Medical curriculum both in the United States and abroad is lacking in the cri6cal area of educa6ng students in the design, implementa6on, and dissemina6on of a scholarly project. Yet increasingly students are expected to perform these tasks. Research exposure has been shown to increase the likelihood a student will follow an academic medicine career track, have beBer employment opportuni6es, develop advanced cri6cal thinking skills and reasoning, and will improve research ac6vity throughout their career (Murdoch et al., 2010; Weston, Mullan, & McLennan, 2010). Commissions from across the globe, tasked with improving medical educa6on, have cited increased research skills as a primary goal (Burgoyne, O’Flynn & Boylan, 2010). For medical educators, it is important to develop sound research skills in our students in order for them to remain compe66ve and become able-‐minded clinician-‐scien6sts. Medical students are urged to complete research elec6ves and projects during their undergraduate careers to make them more compe66ve for residency placement. Yet there is no formal curricular mechanism in place to teach medical students the skills required to develop, implement, and disseminate findings.
The authors would like to express our thanks to Dr. Karen Szauter at UTMB for her extraordinary contribu6ons to the development of the online modules on abstract and poster development. We also would like to thank the University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine Academy of Health Science Educa6on Small Grants Program for providing grant funding to support development and implementa6on of the Academic Skills Building through Global Health online module project at UTMB.
Contact: Caley A. SaBerfield, MEd
Assistant Director Center for Global Health Educa6on University of Texas Medical Branch
Burgoyne, L.N., O’Flynn, S., & Boylan, G.B. (2010). Undergraduate medical research: The student perspec6ve. Medical Educa+on Online, 15. doi: 10.3402/meo.v15i0.5212 Murdoch-‐Eaton, D., Drewery, S., Elton, S., Emmerson, C., Marshall, M., Smith, J.,… & WhiBle, S. (2010). What do medical students understand by research and research skills? Iden6fying research opportuni6es within undergraduate projects. Medical Teacher, 32, e152-‐e160. doi: 10.3109/01421591003657493
Academic Year Before 2012 2011-‐2012 2012-‐2013 2013-‐2014 2014-‐2015 Rota6on Ac6vi6es Clinical Shadowing or Bench
Research • Scholarly Project • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium
• Scholarly Project • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium
• Scholarly Project • Mentor Mee6ngs • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium
• Scholarly Project • Mentor Mee6ngs • Clinical Shadowing/Bench Research • Community Educa6on and Engagement • Poster Presenta6on at UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium
Training • Global Health Lectures (broad topics/pre-‐travel)
• Health and Safety Lecture (pre-‐travel)
• UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pre-‐travel)
• 1 Hour lecture on developing an abstract and poster (post-‐travel)
• 1 Hour demonstra6on on using Stata (post-‐travel)
• UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pre-‐travel)
• 1 Hour workshop on Scholarly Project Development (pre-‐travel)
• 1 Hour workshop on Abstract and Poster Design (pre-‐travel)
• 1 Hour refresher workshop on Abstract and Poster Design (post-‐travel)
• UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pre-‐travel)
• Mentorship Mee6ngs (pre-‐ and post-‐travel) • Academic Skills Building through Global Health Module Series
• Module 1-‐Developing a Scholarly Project (pre-‐travel) • Module 2-‐Implemen6ng a Scholarly Project Abroad (pre-‐travel)
• Module 3-‐Developing an Abstract (during and post-‐travel)
• Module 4-‐Developing a Poster (post-‐travel)
• UTMB Global Health Prepara6on Online Module Series (pre-‐travel)
• Mentorship Mee6ngs (pre-‐ and post-‐travel) • Academic Skills Building through Global Health Module Series
• Module 1-‐Developing a Scholarly Project (pre-‐travel)
• Module 2-‐Implemen6ng a Scholarly Project Abroad (pre-‐travel)
• Module 3-‐Developing an Abstract (during and post-‐travel)
• Module 4-‐Developing a Poster (post-‐travel)
Outcomes • Mostly voluntourism ac6vi6es, no scholarly work
• Not enough training on developing abstracts and posters
• Received poor quality abstracts and posters
• Many ques6ons to staff about how to develop abstracts and posters
• Fewer problems than 2011-‐2012, but s6ll many ques6ons to staff on developing abstracts and posters
• Much beBer abstracts and posters
• Much beBer abstracts and posters than previous year • Fewer ques6ons to faculty and staff • Some modules were delayed being released to students due to 6me constraints
• Some mentor input, but mentorship component poorly implemented due to 6me constraints
PLANS • Summer 2015 data collec6on to compare abstract quality
• Interviews and Focus groups to gain consensus between students and mentors on prepara6on
• BeBer implementa6on of mentorship component
Evolution of Academic Skills Building Project
Academic Skills Building through Global Health is a program designed for first year medical students enrolled in global health preceptorships at UTMB. UTMB sends approximately 50 first year medical students on global health rota6ons every year. The program requires students to work with interna6onal collaborators to develop a scholarly project to complete while on an interna6onal rota6on. Students then develop an abstract and present a poster at the annual UTMB Global Health Educa6on Symposium. Students are assigned a mentor for their project and complete four online modules. The module topics include: Developing a Scholarly Project, Implemen6ng a Scholarly Project Abroad, Developing an Abstract, and Developing a Poster.
2013 Topics 2014 Topics Cardiometabolic Side Effects Associated with 2nd Line An6retroviral Therapy at the Mbagathi District Hospital Comprehensive Care Clinic
To assess beliefs, related to the adop6on of former street children, among community members around Maua, Kenya in summer 2014
Effects of the Quan6ty of Antenatal Malaria Prophylaxis on Birth Weight and Maternal Anemia in Ghana
Baseline study of prehospital care in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
The Prevalence of Depression in Adult Pa6ents Undergoing Long Term Hemodialysis Treatments at Buen Samaritano Hospital
Baseline surveillance for a water and sanita6on hygiene (WASH) Community Health Club in the Bateyes of the Dominican Republic
Recombinase Polymerase Amplifica6on: A new low-‐cost Molecular Method to Diagnose Fascioliasis in low Resource Semngs
Evalua6ng the educa6onal effec6veness on nutri6on and public health prac6ces of El Comedor
The Use of Physical Therapy to Manage Leprosy Deformi6es Factors associated with s6llbirth in the Greater Accra Region in 2014: A cross sec6onal study
Cumula6ve Malaria Trends of Prevalence, Procedure, and Management in Nyakibale Hospital, Rukungiri, Uganda
HIV/TB Clinical Mentorship Program increases clinical detec6on of smear nega6ve TB in Kenya
Regulatory Tcell Func6onality in Strongyloides Stercoralis Infec6on HIV/TB Clinical Mentorship Program increases clinical detec6on of smear nega6ve TB in Kenya
The Rise of Street Children in Maua, Kenya: A Cross-‐Sec6onal Study Prevalence of Chikungunya virus in febrile pa6ents in the Dominican Republic
Reproduc6ve Behaviors of Women in Quito, Ecuador Ambient air pollu6on and acute respiratory infec6ons in Ecuadorian children
Examples of Student Project Topics
What is Academic Skills Building through Global Health?
Why is it important?
Acknowledgements
References
Module Screenshots
