Department of Medicine at Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Perspect Med Educ. 2024 Oct 14;13(1):518-526. doi: 10.5334/pme.1264. eCollection 2024.
Teaching and learning approaches can support medical students in developing the research skills necessary to be adept consumers of scientific research. Despite various influencing factors, existing literature on effective strategies in undergraduate medical education remains limited.
Using a spiraled curriculum, we created and evaluated a longitudinal course to enhance medical students' research abilities.
During a recent curriculum renewal at one medical school, a three-year longitudinal course on the principles of research was developed and implemented. The innovation of this course includes the sequential nature and deliberate redundancy of curriculum content, how new knowledge is linked to prior learning, and the progressive level of difficulty in knowledge application and skill development.
The authors analysed faculty members' and students' satisfaction and their perceptions of each session of the course using program evaluation data collected between 2019 and 2021. Both faculty members and students recognized the benefits of revisiting concepts and highlighted learning outcomes like improved synthesis of information, explaining findings to patients, and enhanced critical thinking.
The adoption of a spiraled curriculum in undergraduate medical education offers a systematic approach for developing students' research skills. The positive reception of this innovation underscores its potential to help future health professionals form a professional identity as adept researchers. However, its implications demand careful consideration and ongoing evaluation to ensure that the desired outcomes are sustained.
教学方法可以帮助医学生培养必要的科研技能，使其成为善于利用科研成果的人。尽管存在各种影响因素，但现有的本科医学教育中关于有效策略的文献仍然有限。
我们采用螺旋式课程，创建并评估了一门纵向课程，以提高医学生的研究能力。
在一所医学院最近的课程更新中，开发并实施了一门为期三年的研究原理纵向课程。该课程的创新之处在于课程内容的顺序性和有意的冗余性、新知识与先前学习的联系以及知识应用和技能发展的逐步难度级别。
作者使用 2019 年至 2021 年期间收集的课程评估数据，分析了教师和学生对该课程各个环节的满意度及其看法。教师和学生都认识到重温概念的好处，并强调了学习成果，如提高信息综合能力、向患者解释研究发现以及增强批判性思维能力。
在本科医学教育中采用螺旋式课程为培养学生的研究技能提供了一种系统的方法。这种创新受到了积极的评价，突出了它帮助未来的医疗保健专业人员形成善于研究的专业身份的潜力。然而，其影响需要仔细考虑和持续评估，以确保维持预期的结果。
