Chen George, Kazmi Masooma, Chen Danling, Phillips Jedan
Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, 101 Nicolls RoadLevel 4, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8434 USA.
Med Sci Educ. 2021 Jul 15;31(5):1645-1651. doi: 10.1007/s40670-021-01355-2. eCollection 2021 Oct.
This project aimed to implement a rigorous evaluation of influenza vaccine education as a learning tool for influenza and medical knowledge and clinical proficiency.
Among 280 Stony Brook University first-year medical students, 80 were randomly selected to participate in the Stony Brook influenza vaccine education program. Participants completed an anonymous pre-survey assessing participants': (1) experience and attitudes towards flu vaccines, (2) knowledge base of the flu virus and vaccine, (3) self-rated knowledge of the flu virus and vaccine, and (4) self-rated proficiency of clinical skills relevant to administering flu vaccines. Students then completed an educational module and vaccinated either employee healthcare workers or patients at a student-run free health clinic. Following the vaccination experience, participants completed a post-survey including questions identical to those on the pre-survey and questions regarding their evaluation of the flu vaccine education program. The pre- and post-survey data were paired, established through matching surrogate study identification codes, and differences between survey responses were analyzed using paired t-tests.
Eighty first-year medical students participated in the pre-survey, while 55 participated in the post-survey. Compared to the pre-survey, participants significantly improved their knowledge base related to the flu virus and vaccine as well as their self-rated knowledge and clinical skills, in the post-survey.
The Stony Brook influenza vaccination program succeeded in establishing medical student training and practice with service learning. Our study is the first to provide quantitative evidence of influenza vaccine education programs improving medical student knowledge and clinical skills.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01355-2.
本项目旨在对流感疫苗教育作为流感及医学知识和临床技能学习工具进行严格评估。
在280名石溪大学一年级医学生中，随机选取80名参与石溪大学流感疫苗教育项目。参与者完成一份匿名预调查，评估其：（1）对流感疫苗的经验和态度；（2）流感病毒和疫苗的知识基础；（3）自我评定的流感病毒和疫苗知识；（4）自我评定的与接种流感疫苗相关临床技能的熟练程度。学生们随后完成一个教育模块，并在学生运营的免费健康诊所为员工医护人员或患者接种疫苗。接种疫苗体验结束后，参与者完成一份后调查，其中包括与预调查相同的问题以及关于他们对流感疫苗教育项目评价的问题。预调查和后调查数据通过匹配替代研究识别码进行配对，并使用配对t检验分析调查回复之间的差异。
80名一年级医学生参与了预调查，55名参与了后调查。与预调查相比，参与者在后调查中显著提高了他们与流感病毒和疫苗相关的知识基础以及自我评定的知识和临床技能。
石溪大学流感疫苗接种项目成功地通过服务学习建立了医学生培训和实践。我们的研究首次提供了流感疫苗教育项目提高医学生知识和临床技能的定量证据。
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