What should medical students learn in a long term conditions placement
Research type
Research Study
Full title
What do patients think we should teach medical students: Involving patients at the point of curriculum design(InPaCD).
IRAS ID
297813
Contact name
Valerie Wass
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Aberdeen
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Patients are the backbone of undergraduate medical education. Students typically have contact with patients on hospital wards, in the community and in a facilitated learning environment to take histories, practice examination and formulation of diagnoses and develop communication skills. The curriculum for medical schools is developed by clinicians and educators and the literature suggests that, across medical education, we do not ask patients what their views are on what should be taught. We know that many of our patients have multiple long term conditions (multimorbidity) and that caring for these patients is complex. The evidence we use to deliver best care often focuses on single conditions and caring for multimorbid patients requires that we focus on patients beliefs and on values based care. We need a good understanding of what is important to our patients, in order to care for them well.
This project seeks to explore patients experiences of primary and secondary care and their ideas of what medical students should learn to help them provide good care for patients with long term conditions. We hope to use this knowledge to inform the development of the learning outcomes for the block to align with patients beliefs around what represents good care.
We will recruit patients from general practice and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (10 patients in total) to participate in semi-structured interviews exploring their experiences of care and their thoughts on what medical students should learn, or be taught, to help them provide good care for patients with long term conditions. Participants will be from both urban and rural background and be affected by a range of long term conditions.REC name
South Central - Oxford B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/SC/0396
Date of REC Opinion
22 Dec 2021
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion