Trial reportPain medicine (Malden, Mass.)2020
How to Teach Medical Students About Pain and Dementia: E-Learning, Experiential Learning, or Both?
Trial report in Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Correlates in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Quantitative Insights from Final-Year Nursing and Medical Students in a Mixed-Methods Study.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Exploring Nursing and Medical Students' Experiences of Handling Challenging Conversations: A Qualitative Focus Group Study.Advances in medical education and practice · 2025Article
- Can a translational science approach change the dementia narrative in medical education?Frontiers in dementia · 2023Article
- 'Medical education online · 2022Article
- The training of wrist arthroscopy.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
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12 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivePain management in persons with mild to moderate dementia poses unique challenges because of altered pain modulation and the tendency of some individuals to perseverate. We aimed to test the impact of an e-learning module about pain in communicative people with dementia on third-year medical students who had or had not completed an experiential geriatrics course.
designAnalysis of pre- to postlearning changes and comparison of the same across the student group.
settingUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Medicine. SUBJECTS: One hundred four University of Pittsburgh and 57 Saint Louis University medical students.
methodsUniversity of Pittsburgh students were randomized to view either the pain and dementia module or a control module on pain during a five-day geriatrics course. Saint Louis University students were asked to complete either of the two modules without the context of a geriatrics course. A 10-item multiple choice knowledge test and three-item attitudes and confidence questionnaires were administered before viewing the module and up to seven days later.
resultsKnowledge increase was significantly greater among students who viewed the dementia module while participating in the geriatrics course than among students who viewed the module without engaging in the course (P < 0.001). The modules did not improve attitudes in any group, while student confidence improved in all groups.
conclusionsMedical students exposed to e-learning or experiential learning demonstrated improved confidence in evaluating and managing pain in patients with dementia. Those exposed to both educational methods also significantly improved their knowledge.
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