Kis Hannah, Endres Kaitlin, Karwowska Anna, Harrison Megan, Lau Stephanie, Lemire Olivia, Zucker Marc
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Pediatric Medicine, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2022 Jul 6;13(3):70-74. doi: 10.36834/cmej.73167. eCollection 2022 Jul.
The "Teddy Bear Hospital Project" (TBHP) is a low cost, international initiative aimed at reducing children's fears associated with healthcare visits by modelling these interactions using teddy bears. The University of Ottawa program had the additional objective of assessing whether TBHP increased pre-clerkship medical students' comfort communicating medical concepts to children. Our student volunteers reported a statistically significant increase in their comfort communicating medical topics to young children and all volunteers would recommend TBHP to a colleague interested in pursuing family medicine or pediatrics. Our program could also be easily replicated by Pediatric Interest Groups at other Canadian medical schools.
“泰迪熊医院项目”（TBHP）是一项低成本的国际倡议，旨在通过用泰迪熊模拟医疗互动来减少儿童对就医的恐惧。渥太华大学的项目还有一个额外目标，即评估TBHP是否提高了临床前医学生向儿童传达医学概念的舒适度。我们的学生志愿者报告称，他们向幼儿传达医学话题的舒适度有统计学意义上的显著提高，并且所有志愿者都会向对从事家庭医学或儿科学感兴趣的同事推荐TBHP。我们的项目也可以很容易地被加拿大其他医学院的儿科兴趣小组复制。
