Surgical Residents as Clerkship Scholars May Improve Student Perception of the Surgery Clerkship
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH(2024)
Abstract
Introduction: The surgical clerkship is a formative experience in the medical school cur-riculum and can leave a lasting impression on students' perception of surgery. Given the historical negative stereotypes of surgeons, the clerkship represents an opportunity to impact students in a meaningful way.Methods: Our institution developed a program in which research residents can serve as junior clerkship coordinators and educators; working closely with medical students on their surgery clerkship. At the end of their clerkship, students were administered a survey with Likert-scale and free text responses regarding satisfaction with the rotation, lectures, feedback, and value of the clerkship. Student survey results were compared before (2015-2016) and after (20172019) the implementation of the scholar program with nonparametric statistical analysis and qualitative text analysis. Results: A total of 413 students responded to the survey with no significant difference in response rate by term (P = 0.88). We found no statistical difference with respect to overall course perception (92.3% versus 91.2%, P = 0.84), buta statistically significant difference was noted for the clarity of the provided written clerkship materials (80.3% versus 91.3%, P = 0.02) and usefulness of the feedback (57.5% versus 78.7%, P = 0.01). Qualitative analysis demonstrated an overall positive shift in perception of the clerkship, improvement in the course materials, and organization.Conclusions: The scholar program was overall well received by the students with im-provements in certain aspects of the clerkship: organization, feedback, and course mate -rials. This program represents a potential strategy to improve certain portions of the medical school clerkship experience.(c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Key words
Clerkship,Medical school,Medical student education,Surgical education
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