Student Teaching in the Family Medicine Clerkship: Opportunities for Interactive Virtual Learning
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7-1-2023
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Abstract
ObjectivesIt often is challenging to deliver clerkship didactic sessions in a time-effective and engaging manner for learners. The flipped classroom approach, which fosters independent learning before applying knowledge in group settings, is an evidence-based way to enhance engagement and learning. Electronic learning methodologies were used widely during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic to ensure student safety while continuing didactics remotely. Student teaching of didactics delivers key content in innovative ways while also providing students with the opportunity to teach their peers.MethodsDuring the Family Medicine clerkship at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, students deliver an interactive, 15-minute presentation on a core Society of Teachers of Family Medicine National Clerkship Curriculum topic. During the first year of the pandemic (2020), this assignment was transitioned to be conducted remotely via Zoom. For the 2020-2021 academic year, students completed an anonymous, optional, computer-based, postactivity survey to assess their satisfaction with and perceptions of the assignment.ResultsThe majority (80%) of respondents reported that they enjoyed teaching in the online format. In addition, students reported that this assignment made them feel confident in their teaching abilities, that they learned from their peers, and that teaching helped clarify their understanding of the topic.ConclusionsStudent-led teaching is beneficial to learners because it enhances engagement. It can be easily implemented and help reduce faculty burden for curricular development. In a distributed, community-based clinical model such as ours, electronic learning allows for coordinated teaching efforts across geographical boundaries.
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Akhouri, Shweta; Virani, Anna; Minor, Suzanne; and Samuels, Marquita N., "Student Teaching in the Family Medicine Clerkship: Opportunities for Interactive Virtual Learning" (2023). Coronavirus Research at FIU. 167.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/covid-19_research/167
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