Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Faculty of Medicine, Gezira University, Wad Madani, Sudan.
BMC Med Educ. 2023 Apr 11;23(1):230. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04168-6.
Globalization and other relevant phenomena such as healthcare workforce, ageing of the population, brain drain etc. all necessitate medical curricula to transcend national medicine and encompass a more global approach. This is especially true in the context of developing countries which currently act as passive recipients of ongoing global decisions, health inequities or pandemics. The aim of this research was to study the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sudanese medical students towards global health education and the impact of extra-curricular activities on their knowledge and attitudes.
This was a descriptive cross-sectional institutional based study. The study was conducted in five Sudanese Universities and participants were selected using systematic random sampling. An online-based, self-administered questionnaire was used, samples were collected between November 2019 until April 2020 and data was analyzed using SPSS version 25.
1176 medical students were involved. The study revealed a poor level of knowledge among 72.4%, and only 2.3% of respondents revealed a good level of knowledge. Mean knowledge scores between Universities slightly vary and have shown positive correlation according to the grade of the medical student. Regarding attitude, the results demonstrated the high level of interest of medical students in global health, their agreement in including global health in their official medical education curriculum (64.8%) and their consideration of including global health as part of their future career (46.8%).
The study concluded that there is a knowledge gap among Sudanese medical students regarding global health education, although students showed good attitudes and willingness to include global health in their official curriculum.
Global health education should be implemented in the official curriculums of Sudanese Universities, and Universities should do global partnerships and increase the learning and teaching opportunities in this interesting field.
全球化和其他相关现象，如医疗保健劳动力、人口老龄化、人才外流等，都要求医学课程超越国家医学，采用更全球化的方法。对于发展中国家来说，这一点尤其如此，因为它们目前只是被动接受正在进行的全球决策、卫生不公平或大流行病的影响。本研究旨在研究苏丹医学生对全球健康教育的知识、态度和实践，以及课外活动对他们知识和态度的影响。
这是一项描述性的、基于机构的横断面研究。该研究在苏丹的五所大学进行，参与者采用系统随机抽样选择。使用基于网络的自我管理问卷，于 2019 年 11 月至 2020 年 4 月期间收集样本，并使用 SPSS 版本 25 进行数据分析。
共涉及 1176 名医学生。研究显示，72.4%的学生知识水平较差，只有 2.3%的学生知识水平较好。根据医学生的年级，各大学的平均知识得分略有不同，并表现出正相关。关于态度，研究结果表明医学生对全球健康的兴趣很高，他们同意将全球健康纳入其正式医学教育课程（64.8%），并考虑将全球健康作为未来职业的一部分（46.8%）。
研究表明，苏丹医学生在全球健康教育方面存在知识差距，尽管学生表现出良好的态度，并愿意将全球健康纳入其正式课程。
全球健康教育应纳入苏丹大学的正式课程，大学应建立全球伙伴关系，增加这一有趣领域的学习和教学机会。
