Using personal reflections on older adults as a stimulus for learning
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Using personal reflections on older adults as a stimulus for learning
IRAS ID
274181
Contact name
James Fisher
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Northumbria NHS Trust R&D department
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 29 days
Research summary
The research question is: "How does personal reflection on someone they have a connection with affect third year medical students' perceptions of frailty?" This is relevant to patients and the public as frailty is a becoming more common and will affect more of us in the future. It will therefore be important that the doctors of the future understand not only frailty but how this affects people and the importance of the person as a whole. This will allow them to provide patient-centred care.
This is a medical educational research project which will focus on the education of third year medical students. Part of the medical student teaching programme has been developed, in order to meet the new curriculum outcomes, to include a session where the students are asked to bring personal reflections on someone they know who is older who may or may not be affected by frailty. This was then used to promote discussion around patient centred care.
In order to evaluate this session we would like to do a study which asks these students to take part in focus groups where we explore their experience and gain their perspective on the session. We would also like to ask for their consent to retrospectively analyse some data collected as part of the session itself, in the form of word clouds which asked students to list 3 words which came to their mind in relation to frailty. This study will be conducted at a District General Hospital where the students attend for teaching and the aim is to conduct 2-3 focus groups will be conducted over a 3 week period.REC name
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