Bruening Martin H, Maddern Guy J
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia.
Aust J Rural Health. 2003 Jun;11(3):121-3.
The ever-increasing pressure on metropolitan teaching hospitals to rationalise budgets and increase productivity has resulted in a dwindling amount of teaching opportunity for the medical student population. One solution to the problem was to utilise a largely untapped resource in South Australia, namely the provincial hospitals, however, student opinion regarding such a radical change had yet to be determined.
A questionnaire was circulated among an entire year group of medical students who would be undertaking the revised surgical curriculum with rural attachments.
In October 1997, a decision was made by the Department of Surgery at the University of Adelaide to proceed with optional rural surgical attachments in 1998.
The survey was distributed to the 125 members of the 1997 fifth year medical student group.
A total of 92 questionnaires were returned giving a response rate of 75%. Thirty-nine students ranked a rural term in their top half of preferences, while a further 18 indicated that they would go to a rural centre if they had to.
Despite having little warning of the impending changes to their surgical curriculum, the majority of students who responded to the questionnaire stated that they would be willing to venture to the country locations. Before planning significant changes to an established curriculum, the student group should be consulted to gauge their opinion.
都市教学医院在合理规划预算和提高生产率方面面临的压力与日俱增，这导致医学生的教学机会不断减少。解决这一问题的一个办法是利用南澳大利亚一个基本上未被开发的资源，即省级医院，然而，学生对这一重大变革的看法尚待确定。
向即将学习修订后的带有农村实习内容的外科课程的一整个年级的医学生发放了问卷。
1997年10月，阿德莱德大学外科系决定在1998年开展选修的农村外科实习。
该调查面向1997年五年级医学生群体的125名成员进行。
共收回92份问卷，回复率为75%。39名学生将农村实习排在他们偏好的前半部分，另有18名学生表示如果必须去，他们愿意前往农村中心。
尽管对即将到来的外科课程变化几乎没有预先通知，但大多数回复问卷的学生表示他们愿意前往农村地区。在对既定课程进行重大更改之前，应该征求学生群体的意见以了解他们的看法。
