Teuwen Carolyn Joyce, Vorstermans Karlijn, Kusurkar Rashmi A, Schreurs Hermien, Daelmans Hester E M, Peerdeman Saskia M
Northwest Academy, Northwest Clinics Alkmaar, P.O. box 501, 1800AM, Alkmaar, North Holland, The Netherlands.
Research in Education, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1118, Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands.
MedEdPublish (2016). 2024 Sep 12;14:24. doi: 10.12688/mep.19773.2. eCollection 2024.
Interprofessional education is one of the interventions used to increase health care students' motivation for working with older patients. Previous research about such interventions has been conducted without the use of control groups and has given inconclusive results. The objective of the present curricular resource was: Does geriatric paper-based interprofessional education influence students' interest in treating older people? During a one-year period, undergraduate fourth-year medical and third-year nursing students wrote four health care plans for four different paper-based older patient cases. In the intervention group students were paired up in interprofessional couples. In the control group students made the assignment alone. Interest for working with older patients was measured on a 5-point Likert scale before and one year after the intervention. In both groups, no significant change was found. Before-interest score of the interprofessional group was relatively high (3.8) so the non-significant results may be due to a ceiling effect. Nursing students' interest in treating older people at the start of the research was higher than medical students' interest.
跨专业教育是用于提高医护专业学生与老年患者合作积极性的干预措施之一。此前关于此类干预措施的研究未设置对照组，结果尚无定论。本课程资源的目标是：基于纸质材料的老年医学跨专业教育是否会影响学生治疗老年人的兴趣？在一年时间里，本科四年级医学生和三年级护理学生针对四个不同的纸质老年患者病例撰写了四份医疗保健计划。干预组的学生两两结成跨专业对子。对照组的学生独立完成任务。在干预前和干预一年后，使用5分量表测量学生与老年患者合作的兴趣。两组均未发现显著变化。跨专业组的干预前兴趣得分相对较高（3.8），因此结果不显著可能是由于天花板效应。研究开始时，护理专业学生治疗老年人的兴趣高于医学专业学生。
