Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships and Undergraduate Surgical Education: A Scoping Review and Gap Analysis.
J Surg Educ
; 81(3): 367-372, 2024 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-38272748
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs) are an increasingly popular approach to medical student clinical education, and the literature describing them is expanding. Despite this, there is a lack of understanding for how surgery didactics and skills are currently taught as a part of the LIC curriculum.DESIGN:
We conducted a scoping literature review in July 2022 using terms related to LIC and surgical education. Abstract and full-length text screening followed. Data extraction was completed in August 2022. Articles published in English, focused on LIC students, and discussed any element of LIC curriculum surgical education was included.SETTING:
Scoping literature review.PARTICIPANTS:
A total of 282 studies describing LICs were identified from the scoping literature review. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 37 (13%) studies describing some element of surgical education were included.RESULTS:
Of these 37 studies, the majority did not delve into pertinent details related to students' surgery experience, expectations, and surgical skills accomplishments. Four studies (11%) reported on the outpatient surgical experience, such as minimum required time that students were expected to be in the clinic, and 8 studies (22%) described the inpatient and operating room exposure. Only 1 study (3%) described the surgical floor management of surgical patients, including tasks like documentation and wound care, and 3 studies (8%) reported formal assessment of surgical skills, such as suturing technique.CONCLUSIONS:
Our study highlights the paucity LIC literature examining the relationship between this curricular innovation and the unique needs of medical students on a surgical clerkship. Surgeon educators should embrace the opportunity to contribute LIC curriculum development and subsequent investigation into how this modality interfaces with the learning objectives of undergraduate surgical education. A formal description of essential curriculum components for all surgical LIC programs is needed to ensure appropriate surgical education across the varied LIC models.Key words
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students, Medical
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Clinical Clerkship
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Education, Medical
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Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Surg Educ
Year:
2024
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Article
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