Marine Medicine Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Trauma Research Centre, Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
BMC Med Educ. 2023 Jun 23;23(1):470. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04461-4.
Marine medicine is one of the medical fields that deals with the health and safety of people related to the sea but the marine medicine syllabus for education to the students is not specified yet. The present study aimed to develop the marine medicine syllabus to medical sciences students education.
This study was conducted in three phases. First, a literature review was conducted to find the concepts and topics related to marine medicine. Second, a content analysis research method was conducted. Data collection was done first by using semi-structured interviews with the 12 experts in marine medicine. Sampling was purposeful and continued until data saturation was reached. The information obtained from the interviews was analyzed by conventional content analysis with Geranheim's method. The found topics in the literature review and content analysis of interviews were combined and formed the initial draft of the marine medicine syllabus, which was validated with the Delphi method in the third phase. The Delphi was conducted in two rounds and the panel consisted of 18 experts in the field of marine medicine. After the completion of each round, the items that had less than 80% consensus among the participants were removed and the remaining topics after round two formed the final syllabus of the marine medicine.
The findings showed that the marine medicine syllabus should include an overview of marine medicine, health at sea, common physical diseases and injuries at sea, subsurface medicine and hyperbaric, safety action in marine incidents, medical care at sea, psychology at sea and medical examinations of people working at sea main topics and their sub topics.
Marine medicine is an extent and specialized medical field which has been neglected and it is necessary to teach this lesson to medical sciences students with the syllabus found in the present study.
海洋医学是医学领域之一，涉及与海洋相关的人员的健康和安全，但针对学生的海洋医学教学大纲尚未明确规定。本研究旨在为医学专业学生制定海洋医学教学大纲。
本研究分为三个阶段进行。首先，进行文献回顾，以查找与海洋医学相关的概念和主题。其次，采用内容分析法进行研究。首先通过对 12 名海洋医学专家进行半结构式访谈来收集数据。采用目的性抽样，直到达到数据饱和为止。从访谈中获得的信息通过常规内容分析方法和 Geranheim 方法进行分析。文献综述和访谈内容分析中发现的主题结合起来，形成了海洋医学教学大纲的初稿，然后在第三阶段通过德尔菲法进行验证。德尔菲法进行了两轮，专家组由 18 名海洋医学领域的专家组成。每轮完成后，将参与者共识度低于 80%的项目删除，第二轮剩余的主题形成海洋医学教学大纲的最终版本。
研究结果表明，海洋医学教学大纲应包括海洋医学概述、海上健康、海上常见的身体疾病和伤害、潜水医学和高压氧、海洋事故中的安全行动、海上医疗保健、海上心理学和在海上工作的人员的体检等主要主题及其子主题。
海洋医学是一个广泛而专业的医学领域，目前还被忽视，有必要根据本研究发现的教学大纲向医学生教授这门课程。
