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Laying the foundation: Teaching policy and advocacy to medical trainees

Martin, Danielle, Hum, Susan, Han, Margaret, Whitehead, Cynthia·2013·Medical Teacher
DOI 10.3109/0142159x.2013.770453
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BACKGROUND: A novel and comprehensive two-year health policy curriculum was developed and implemented for family medicine residents at two University of Toronto-affiliated teaching sites. AIM: To evaluate the impact of the curriculum on residents' knowledge of health policy issues, and its usefulness to their learning. METHOD: The evaluation included a pre-post delivery assessment of residents' content-based knowledge of issues in the Canadian healthcare system. Residents were also asked to evaluate the content, process and usefulness of the health policy curriculum. RESULTS: At the end, more than two-thirds of residents had a better understanding of the Canadian healthcare system. The overall pre-post scores showed that residents retained content-based facts in some detail. However, more importantly, residents' positive evaluations of the curriculum indicated they were engaged, enthusiastic and recognized its importance for their learning. CONCLUSION: Despite residents' positive evaluations, questions remain as to how best to assess the success of health policy curricula. Moving beyond the popular pre-post test, less traditional approaches might complement standard program evaluation methods in future. As educators increasingly develop curricula aimed at non-biomedical expertise, we must consider how we can most meaningfully evaluate long-term impact on graduates' approach to clinical practice and their engagement in health system advocacy.

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  • Another four articles described curricula in four separate specialty training programs at the same institution.

    “Another four articles described curricula in four separate specialty training programs at the same institution. 24, 26, 44, 52”

    From A Systematic Review of Advocacy Curricula in Graduate Medical Education (2019) · cites this paper as [44]

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Authors
Martin, D., Hum, S., Han, M., & Whitehead, C.
Affiliations
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Martin, Danielle
ORCID
Venue
Medical Teacher
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2013-04-18
Volume
35
Issue
5
Pages
352-358
ISSN
  • 0142-159X (ISSN-L)
  • 1466-187X
DOI
10.3109/0142159x.2013.770453
OpenAlex
W1999507833
Cited by
22
References
16
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
1.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Medical Teacher (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Medical Education
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Services Management and Policy
Keywords
family medicine residents, medical education, Canadian health care system, curriculum evaluation, pre- and post-assessment, resident knowledge
MeSH terms
Adult, Canada, Curriculum, Delivery of Health Care, Female, Health Policy, Humans, Internship and Residency, Learning, Male, Students, Medical, Cohort Studies, Knowledge

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