Open AccessImproving Nutrition Education with Second-Year Medical Students: From Take-Home Assignment to Large-Group Application Exercise
Author(s) -
Julia Bisschops,
Sabyasachi Moulik,
Gregory W. Schneider
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical science educator
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 13
ISSN - 2156-8650
DOI - 10.1007/s40670-021-01342-7
Subject(s) - facilitator , session (web analytics) , medical education , perception , psychology , cohort , problem based learning , medicine , computer science , social psychology , neuroscience , world wide web
Augmenting its nutrition education, the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Endocrinology course initially used a case-based, take-home assignment on type II diabetes dietary guidelines, with literature search requirement and a module on relevant social determinants of health (SDOH). Course evaluations indicated this assignment did not adequately improve student perceptions of learning. For the subsequent cohort, we changed to a large-group active learning session, requiring one faculty facilitator, where student teams created problem lists including SDOH and reviewed research articles to support evidence-based nutrition recommendations. Survey results indicate that the new session resulted in significantly improved student perceptions of learning.