Abstract Details

Title Empowering residents to enhance Medical Students' ��ɫ�� during their Neurology Clerkship

Topic Research Methodology, ��ɫ��, and History

Presentation(s) P2 - Poster Session 2 (5:30 PM-6:30 PM)

Poster/Presentation
Number 4-030

Objective

To explore the influence of neurology residents’ teaching on medical students’ rotating through the neurology clerkship, and how it improves their confidence in the management of neurological conditions.

Background

Early recognition of common neurological conditions is crucial to allow for timely management or appropriate referrals. Unfortunately, many non-neurologist physicians feel uncomfortable dealing with these conditions. This is, to some extent, due to lack of proper training and understanding of the field. Medical students rotating through neurology are closely involved with residents during their clerkship. Students’ learning and confidence is likely affected by the residents’ teaching skills and methods.

Design/Methods We created pre and post clerkship anonymous surveys for 3rd year students that rotated our Neurology department, at UTHealth, McGovern Medical School. Surveys focused on student’s confidence in Neurology, and various features of residents’ teaching. We used descriptive statistics to show the correlation between different aspects of the students’ educational interaction with residents, and its effect in their post-rotation confidence in dealing with neurological conditions. We used the Spearman correlation analyses to determine the correlates of these results.

Results A total of 59 surveys were completed. Initially, only 22.54% of the students felt confident managing neurological conditions. This increased to 93.22% after the rotation. Various aspects of the residents’ educational influence were assessed, including effectiveness, professionalism, bedside manners, and time invested in teaching. 76.27% indicated that residents are very efficient teachers, and 94.91% believed residents created a positive learning experience for them. Student’s confidence correlated significantly with teaching efficiency (r=0.356, p< .006) and residents’ overall effect during the clerkship experience (r=0.351; p=0.07).

Conclusions Preliminary results show that effective resident teaching improves students’ learning during clerkship. Our group is currently focused on improving the student’s learning resources, as well as providing residents with teaching workshops in order to improve educational skills. Future goals include obtaining more objective measures, such as test scores and clerkship evaluations.

Authors/Disclosures
Yvo A. Rodriguez-Linares, MD (UTHealth McGovern Medical School Neurology Department) PRESENTER	Dr. Rodriguez-Linares has nothing to disclose.
Zafer Keser, MD (Mayo Clinic)	Dr. Keser has received personal compensation in the range of $10,000-$49,999 for serving as an Editor, Associate Editor, or Editorial Advisory Board Member for Elsevier Practice Update.
George N. Ansoanuur, MD	No disclosure on file
Masumeh Hatami, MD (UTH)	No disclosure on file
	No disclosure on file
Erin Furr-Stimming, MD, FAAN (University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston)	Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation for serving as an employee of Help4HD International. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Consultant for Medscape. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Consultant for MedPage. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Consultant for PTC Therapeutics. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Consultant for Wave Life Sciences. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Consultant for Latus Bio. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Consultant for Atalanta Therapeutics. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a Consultant for Novartis. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving on a Scientific Advisory or Data Safety Monitoring board for SkyHawk Therapeutics. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving on a Scientific Advisory or Data Safety Monitoring board for Novartis . Dr. Furr-Stimming has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving on a Scientific Advisory or Data Safety Monitoring board for Atalanta Therapeutics. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from Roche/Genetech. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from Uniqure. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from CHDI. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from Huntington Study Group/Neurocrine Bioscienes. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from NIH/University of Iowa. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from Sage Therapeutics. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from HDSA. The institution of Dr. Furr-Stimming has received research support from Prilennia. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received publishing royalties from a publication relating to health care. Dr. Furr-Stimming has received publishing royalties from a publication relating to health care. Dr. Furr-Stimming has a non-compensated relationship as a Committee member with AAN UES Committee that is relevant to AAN interests or activities.

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