Zardast Mahmoud, Fereidouni Alireza, Golkari Sanaz, Zeinali Elahe, Faal Golamreza, Atabati Elham, Ziaee Masoud, Moghadam Seyed Gholamreza Mortazavi, Fereidouni Mohammad
Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Ghaffari Street, Birjand, South Khorasan Province Iran.
Student Research Committee, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Med Sci Educ. 2023 Jan 30;33(1):185-189. doi: 10.1007/s40670-023-01734-x. eCollection 2023 Feb.
The medical curriculum consists of basic pre-clinical and clinical parts. Basic sciences are required for diagnostic and clinical reasoning but students do not have a positive attitude toward basic sciences, mostly because of the lack of clinical relevancy. Basic sciences have many applications in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad range of diseases but do not attract the attention of medical students. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of clinical experts' opinions on the attitude of medical students toward basic sciences, particularly immunology. The opinion of six clinical specialists in different fields was recorded in a video clip, presenting the application of basic sciences and immunology in their routine practice. The attitude of second-year medical students toward the basic science courses was evaluated by a questionnaire containing four ranking questions and one short answer. The video clip was streamed and after that, students were answering the same questions. In total, 188 students including 129 s-year students (M/F ratio: 0.92) and 59 third-year students M/F ratio: 0.90) participated in the study. For all ranking questions, the mean score was significantly increased after watching the interviews' film streaming. Before watching the video clip, only 14.9% of students considered immunology as an important course but after that, the percentage significantly increased to 58.5% ( < 0.001). The results of this study showed that knowing clinical specialists' opinions about basic sciences significantly improved the attitude of students toward basic science courses, in particular immunology.
医学课程由基础临床前部分和临床部分组成。基础科学对于诊断和临床推理是必需的，但学生对基础科学没有积极的态度，主要是因为缺乏临床相关性。基础科学在广泛疾病的预防、诊断和治疗中有许多应用，但并未引起医学生的关注。本研究的目的是调查临床专家的意见对医学生对基础科学，特别是免疫学态度的影响。不同领域的六位临床专家的意见被记录在一个视频片段中，展示了基础科学和免疫学在他们日常实践中的应用。通过一份包含四个排序问题和一个简答题的问卷，对二年级医学生对基础科学课程的态度进行了评估。播放视频片段后，学生们回答相同的问题。共有188名学生参与了这项研究，其中包括129名二年级学生（男/女比例：0.92）和59名三年级学生（男/女比例：0.90）。对于所有排序问题，观看访谈视频流后平均得分显著提高。在观看视频片段之前，只有14.9%的学生认为免疫学是一门重要的课程，但之后这一比例显著提高到58.5%（P<0.001）。本研究结果表明，了解临床专家对基础科学的意见显著改善了学生对基础科学课程，特别是免疫学的态度。
