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Rueda-Ruzafa L, Ropero-Padilla C, Ruiz-González C, Rodriguez-Arrastia M, Roman P, Sánchez-Labraca N. A nursing socio-environmental approach for acute pesticide poisoning: A qualitative focus group study. J Adv Nurs 2022; 79:1754-1764. [PMID: 35668553 DOI: 10.1111/jan.15319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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AIM To explore the experiences and perceptions of final-year nursing students in assessing and managing acute pesticide poisoning using a socio-environmental care approach in a primary health care simulation-based scenario. DESIGN A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using focus groups. METHODS Twelve focus groups were held, with 114 fourth-year nursing students. The study was carried out from September to November 2021. To grant an in-depth analysis of the collected data, a thematic analysis was used. RESULTS After our data analysis, three main themes emerged: (i) experiences of an acute pesticide poisoning case in a simulation-based scenario; (ii) environmental health nursing competencies for a culturally competent practice and (iii) social factors in prevention strategies. CONCLUSIONS Using a socio-environmental care approach with a primary care simulation-based poisoning case can provide a realistic public health clinical experience for local problems and prepare the context for the development of global citizenship values, as well as offer numerous opportunities to facilitate transformative learning, including Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into local nursing clinical practice. IMPACT Nurse managers, policymakers and educators must collaborate together to broaden their reach in teaching the role of the environment and social determinants of health through evidence-based care models, as well as actively contributing to the achievement of the SDGs to promote "glocal" competencies among nursing professionals.
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- Lola Rueda-Ruzafa
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Science, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Pre-Department of Nursing, Jaume I University, Castellon de la Plana, Spain
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Science, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain.,Torrecardenas University Hospital, Almeria, Spain
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Pre-Department of Nursing, Jaume I University, Castellon de la Plana, Spain
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Science, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain.,Research Group CTS-451 Health Sciences, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain.,Health Research Centre, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Science, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain
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Riogi B, Ross C, Mutebi M, Dave RV. The Kenya UK Breast Cancer Awareness Week: curriculum codesign and codelivery with direct and lived experience of breast cancer diagnosis and management. BMJ Glob Health 2022; 7:bmjgh-2022-008755. [PMID: 35537762 PMCID: PMC9092125 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Global health education holds a paradox: the provision of global health degrees focusing on challenges in low-income and middle-income countries has increased in high-income countries, while those in these low-income and middle-income countries lack access to contribute their expertise, creating an 'information problem'. Breast cancer is a pressing global health priority, which requires curriculum design, implementation, ownership and leadership by those with direct and lived experience of breast cancer.The Kenya-UK Breast Cancer Awareness Week was conceptualised following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Kenyan and UK governments launching the Kenya UK Health Alliance. This alliance aims to promote health cooperation to address Kenya's breast cancer challenge. Here, we present the first of the collaborative's initiatives: a breast cancer global health education programme designed, implemented, owned and led by Kenyan stakeholders.We present the utilisation of the Virtual Roundtable for Collaborative Education Design for the design and implementation of a nationwide virtual breast cancer awareness week delivered across eleven Kenyan medical schools. By involving partners with lived and/or professional experience of breast cancer in Kenya in all stages of the design and delivery of the awareness week, the project experimented with disrupting power dynamics and fostered ownership of the initiative by colleagues with direct expertise of breast cancer in Kenya.This initiative provides a platform, precedent and playbook to guide professionals from other specialties in the design and implementation of similar global collaborative ventures. We have used this approach to continue to advocate for global health curricula design change, so that those with lived experiences of global health challenges in their contextualised professional and personal environments are given leadership, reward and ownership of their curricula and further to highlight breast cancer as a global heath priority.
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- Bahaty Riogi
- Department of Surgery, Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kisii, Kenya
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- The Nightingale Breast Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- The Nightingale Breast Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.,Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Hou J, Peluso MJ, Samaan JS, Kellett AT, Rohrbaugh RM. Global health education in China's medical schools: A national cross-sectional study. MEDICAL TEACHER 2021; 43:1317-1322. [PMID: 34260862 DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2021.1947478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Despite China's large and growing global presence, data about global health (GH) education (GHE) in China's medical schools are limited. We aimed to describe GHE in these schools and determine whether some may teach GH concepts without labeling them as such. METHODS In 2019, 161 Chinese medical schools eligible for accreditation by the Ministry of Education were invited to complete a questionnaire as part of a national survey. Data were analyzed using descriptive analyses, Chi-square tests, Fisher exact tests, and logit models. RESULTS Approximately 57% of schools completed the survey (n = 93). 33 (35.5%) indicated that GHE was included in the curriculum. Although the majority of responding schools reported the absence of GH in the curriculum, GH topics were identified at many institutions. Schools affiliated with the central government or an aspiring world-class university were more likely to report the inclusion of GHE and offered more opportunities at international away sites. CONCLUSIONS Chinese medical schools are frequently teaching GH topics, but may not label the instruction as such. Policy-makers and educators should be equipped with a global perspective to facilitate GHE at China's medical schools and take measures to address differences between schools.
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- Jianlin Hou
- Institute of Medical Education & National Center for Health Professions Education Development, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Visiting Student Learning Opportunities, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C, USA
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- Office of Global Health Education, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Sbaiti M, Streule MJ, Alhaffar M, Pilkington V, Leis M, Budhathoki SS, Mkhallalati H, Omar M, Liu L, Golestaneh AK, Abbara A. Whose voices should shape global health education? Curriculum codesign and codelivery by people with direct expertise and lived experience. BMJ Glob Health 2021; 6:bmjgh-2021-006262. [PMID: 34475023 PMCID: PMC8413871 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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There are contrasting opinions of what global health (GH) curricula should contain and limited discussion on whose voices should shape it. In GH education, those with first-hand expertise of living and working in the contexts discussed in GH classrooms are often absent when designing curricula. To address this, we developed a new model of curriculum codesign called Virtual Roundtable for Collaborative Education Design (ViRCoED). This paper describes the rationale and outputs of the ViRCoED approach in designing a new section of the Global Health Bachelor of Science (BSc) curriculum at Imperial College London, with a focus on healthcare in the Syrian conflict. The team, importantly, involved partners with lived and/or professional experience of the conflict as well as alumni of the course and educators in all stages of design and delivery through to marking and project evaluation. The project experimented with disrupting power dynamics and extending ownership of the curriculum beyond traditional faculty by codesigning and codelivering module contents together with colleagues with direct expertise and experience of the Syrian context. An authentic approach was applied to assessment design using real-time syndromic healthcare data from the Aleppo and Idlib Governorates. We discuss the challenges involved in our collaborative partnership and describe how it may have enhanced the validity of our curriculum with students engaging in a richer representation of key health issues in the conflict. We observed an enhanced self-reflexivity in the students’ approach to quantitative data and its complex interpretation. The dialogic nature of this collaborative design was also a formative process for partners and an opportunity for GH educators to reflect on their own positionality. The project aims to challenge current standards and structures in GH curriculum development and gesture towards a GH education sector eventually led by those with lived experience and expertise to significantly enhance the validity of GH education.
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- Mariam Sbaiti
- Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.,Syria Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London and National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, UK/ Singapore.,Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Syria Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London and National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, UK/ Singapore.,Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- School of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Douthit NT, Norcini J, Mazuz K, Alkan M, Feuerstein MT, Clarfield AM, Dwolatzky T, Solomonov E, Waksman I, Biswas S. Assessment of Global Health Education: The Role of Multiple-Choice Questions. Front Public Health 2021; 9:640204. [PMID: 34368038 PMCID: PMC8339563 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.640204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Introduction: The standardization of global health education and assessment remains a significant issue among global health educators. This paper explores the role of multiple choice questions (MCQs) in global health education: whether MCQs are appropriate in written assessment of what may be perceived to be a broad curriculum packed with fewer facts than biomedical science curricula; what form the MCQs might take; what we want to test; how to select the most appropriate question format; the challenge of quality item-writing; and, which aspects of the curriculum MCQs may be used to assess. Materials and Methods: The Medical School for International Health (MSIH) global health curriculum was blue-printed by content experts and course teachers. A 30-question, 1-h examination was produced after exhaustive item writing and revision by teachers of the course. Reliability, difficulty index and discrimination were calculated and examination results were analyzed using SPSS software. Results: Twenty-nine students sat the 1-h examination. All students passed (scores above 67% - in accordance with University criteria). Twenty-three (77%) questions were found to be easy, 4 (14%) of moderate difficulty, and 3 (9%) difficult (using examinations department difficulty index calculations). Eight questions (27%) were considered discriminatory and 20 (67%) were non-discriminatory according to examinations department calculations and criteria. The reliability score was 0.27. Discussion: Our experience shows that there may be a role for single-best-option (SBO) MCQ assessment in global health education. MCQs may be written that cover the majority of the curriculum. Aspects of the curriculum may be better addressed by non-SBO format MCQs. MCQ assessment might usefully complement other forms of assessment that assess skills, attitude and behavior. Preparation of effective MCQs is an exhaustive process, but high quality MCQs in global health may serve as an important driver of learning.
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- Nathan T Douthit
- Department of Geriatrics, Internal Medicine Residency, East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika, AL, United States.,BMJ Case Reports, London, United Kingdom
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- FAIMER, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, Philadelphia, PA, United States.,Psychiatry Department, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States
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- Anthropology, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.,Medical School for International Health, BGU Faculty for Health Sciences, Be'er Sheva, Israel.,Open Clinic, Physicians for Human Rights, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.,Medical School for International Health, BGU Faculty for Health Sciences, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Geriatrics and Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.,Department of Geriatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Geriatric Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Ziv Medical Center, Tzfat, Israel.,The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Tzfat, Israel
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- The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Tzfat, Israel.,Department of Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel
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- BMJ Case Reports, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel
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