POSTER
The Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA),an introduction for
medical students; a video assisted, patient based approach
Dr Ruaidhri McVey, Department of Surgery
ABSTRACT:
Currently the mainstay
of medical student clinical education is based on formal lectures followed by
bedside demonstration of the skills involved in history taking and examination.
It is not always possible to ensure that these two important facets of teaching
coincide within a reasonable length of time. This can result in a failure of
students to grasp subtle concepts essential for the effective delivery of
medical care. Patients may not be available for teaching purposes, especially
in an era where patients may be assessed pre-operatively at an admission
clinic, which shortens the length of stay in hospital but limits their
accessibility to medical students. Furthermore, with the imminent
implementation of the EU Working Time Directive, junior hospital doctors will
find it increasingly difficult to continue to provide bedside teaching for
junior medical students; an important part of training for the next generation
of trainers.
This presentation
demonstrates to the student the skills required to (1) obtain a relevant patient
history. (2) perform a relevant examination; in this case an AAA. (3) apply the
concepts learned in the lecture theatre. In this presentation doctors of a
similar age as the student body, demonstrate their interaction with patients - with direction from
senior medical staff
of a tertiary referral centre. It allows a standard framework for the clinical
assessment of a patient, which students can adapt to individual cases. It
provides a mechanism for students to prepare themselves for clinical practice
and also to revise concepts introduced by their tutor after a bedside teaching
session. Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) style Examinations
have been proven to be a better assessment of doctors in the making; this
format integrates the formal data based concepts of the lecture theatre with
patient focused demonstration, the key to preparing students for examinations
and more importantly for a career in medicine.
BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:
We believe that
patient based, contemporary, video assisted learning will become central to the
training of the next generation of doctors.
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Dr
Ruaidhri McVey Bective
House, New Cabra Rd, Phibsborough,
Dublin 15 Phone:
00 353 87 604 6653 Fax:
00 353 1 8223986 Website:
http://www.rcsi.ie/ Email:
Eamonkav@indigo.ie |
CO-AUTHORS: Mr.
Eamon Kavanagh, Ms Jennifer Meer Ms
B. Guilfoyle, Professor D Bouchier-Hayes, Department
of Surgery Academic
and Research Centre Smurfit
Building, Beaumont Hospital Dublin
9, Ireland Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland Media
Services Department 123,St
Stephens Green Dublin
2 Phone:
Mr. Kavnagh : 00 353 86 3893599 Ms
Guilfoyle : 00 1 4022134 Professor
Bouchier-Hayes : 00 1 8375582 Fax:
Beaumont Hospital : 00 1 8376982 |