Bryant Jennifer E, Hurtt Barbekka C, Schultz Karen
Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, USA.
J Physician Assist Educ. 2010;21(3):23-6. doi: 10.1097/01367895-201021030-00004.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate first-year physician assistant (PA) students' attitudes towards an applied writing assignment in a basic biomedical course.
The assignment required the students to choose a physiology or pathophysiology-related article from a respected media outlet and to select a related original research article. The students summarized, compared, and contrasted the two articles. Finally, the students described how they would explain the media article and related research article to a patient in lay terms that the patient could understand. To evaluate the effectiveness of this assignment the students were given an anonymous survey.
The majority of students agreed that this assignment was relevant to their career training, that the articles they chose were related to an interest of theirs, and that they learned new information about health and/or pathophysiology. Students' comments reinforced their perceived significance of this assignment to their career training and roles as future health care professionals.
It can be inferred from this study that PA students found this type of writing assignment helpful for independently learning a course topic of interest and that they found the writing exercise applicable to their future careers.
本研究旨在评估医学助理第一年学生对基础生物医学课程中一项应用写作作业的态度。
该作业要求学生从一个知名媒体渠道选择一篇与生理学或病理生理学相关的文章，并选择一篇相关的原创研究文章。学生们对这两篇文章进行总结、比较和对比。最后，学生们描述了他们将如何用患者能理解的通俗易懂的语言向患者解释媒体文章和相关研究文章。为了评估这项作业的有效性，对学生进行了匿名调查。
大多数学生认为这项作业与他们的职业培训相关，他们选择的文章与他们的兴趣相关，并且他们学到了有关健康和/或病理生理学的新信息。学生们的评论强化了他们对这项作业对其职业培训以及作为未来医疗保健专业人员角色的重要性的认识。
从这项研究可以推断，医学助理学生发现这种类型的写作作业有助于独立学习感兴趣的课程主题，并且他们发现写作练习适用于他们未来的职业。
