Developing a Novel Interactive Colorectal Cancer Educational Session for First-Year Medical Students to Enhance Interest in Public Health.
Colorectal cancer screening
Medical education
Public health
Journal
Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
ISSN: 1543-0154
Titre abrégé: J Cancer Educ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8610343
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2023
02 2023
Historique:
accepted:
04
09
2021
pubmed:
24
9
2021
medline:
24
1
2023
entrez:
23
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Medical students need more exposure to and a greater understanding of their role in public health throughout their training, which may influence more of them to pursue careers in public health or change how they practice medicine in the future. A novel colorectal cancer education session was created for first year medical students to attempt to increase public health interest, improve colorectal cancer knowledge and discuss barriers to colorectal cancer screening. We constructed a novel integrated interactive peer led colorectal cancer educational session of panelists with a wide range of experiences in colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer screening. The session involved a didactic component, case presentation, and group exercises followed by assembly discussion. We surveyed first-year medical students over two consecutive years to assess their interest in public health, knowledge of colorectal cancer, and perceptions of barriers to colorectal cancer screening before and after the educational session. We also evaluated student satisfaction with the session. We compared the pre- and post-survey results to assess for changes in interest, knowledge and perceptions. 74.63% of students in 2018 and 67.7% in 2019 evaluated the session as excellent or good, with knowledge regarding colorectal cancer screening markedly increased after the educational session. Students reported knowledge and access to healthcare among the biggest patient barriers to colorectal cancer screening. Interest in public health increased by 7.5% and 5.6% in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The implementation of this interactive educational peer led exercise can increase interest in public health, improve knowledge of colorectal cancer prevention and facilitate discussions of colorectal cancer screening barriers. We hope to encourage other programs to adopt this preliminary model.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34553335
doi: 10.1007/s13187-021-02087-y
pii: 10.1007/s13187-021-02087-y
pmc: PMC8457545
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
127-133Informations de copyright
© 2021. American Association for Cancer Education.
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