UCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
UCD Perinatal Research Centre, National Maternity Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Ir J Med Sci. 2022 Feb;191(1):469-473. doi: 10.1007/s11845-021-02580-9. Epub 2021 Mar 3.
Screening programmes decrease the incidence of colorectal, breast and cervical cancer. As such, it is imperative that medical health professionals are educated on the screening programmes available and are aware of the research basis justifying them.
To establish the attitudes of final-year medical students to a gynaecological cancer screening teaching session, provided as part of their core Obstetrics and Gynaecology module.
A 3-h workshop, aimed to critically appraise research papers, reviewed cervical and ovarian cancer screening methods. The workshop was facilitated by a Consultant in Gynae-oncology Surgery. Anonymous evaluation was requested from two hundred nine students attending during the 2018/2019 academic year. Qualitative research with thematic analysis of content was performed.
One hundred fifty-six students gave evaluation on the workshop itself (74.6%). Three main themes were identified-support for the importance of teaching screening methods, appreciation of the importance of understanding cervical screening and a wish for further teaching in Critical Appraisal. Students identified that there was a need to understand screening, that it was "..important for us to consider the value of screening programmes". The teaching on Cervical screening was "..helpful, especially with cervical screening".
Medical students expressed a wish to understand the research basis of a common clinical screening programme (for cervical cancer) as well as the research basis for not providing screening to low risk populations (for ovarian cancer). Further research in this area may include exploring how this is taught in other medical schools.
筛查计划可降低结直肠癌、乳腺癌和宫颈癌的发病率。因此，医学专业人员必须接受有关可用筛查计划的教育，并了解支持这些计划的研究依据。
了解医学生对妇科癌症筛查教学课程的态度，该课程作为其妇产科核心模块的一部分。
为期 3 小时的研讨会旨在批判性地评价研究论文，审查宫颈癌和卵巢癌的筛查方法。该研讨会由妇科肿瘤外科顾问主持。在 2018/2019 学年期间，有 209 名学生参加了研讨会，并要求他们匿名评估。采用主题分析法对定性研究进行内容分析。
156 名学生对该研讨会本身进行了评估（74.6%）。确定了三个主要主题：支持教授筛查方法的重要性、对理解宫颈癌筛查的重要性的赞赏以及对批判性评估进一步教学的愿望。学生们认为有必要了解筛查，因为“......我们需要考虑筛查计划的价值”。关于宫颈癌筛查的教学“......很有帮助，尤其是宫颈癌筛查”。
医学生表示希望了解常见临床筛查计划（宫颈癌）的研究基础，以及对低危人群不提供筛查的研究基础（卵巢癌）。该领域的进一步研究可能包括探索其他医学院校如何教授这方面的内容。
