Virtual student-transplant patient interactions empower patients and enhance student transplantation knowledge - 09/12/21

Doi : 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.09.025

Taylor M. Coe ^a,^b, Ariana M. Chirban ^a, Trevor J. McBroom ^b, Daniel J. Cloonan ^a, Sarah A. Brownlee ^a,^b, Joy Moses ^a,^b, Heidi Yeh ^a,^b, Emil Petrusa ^a,^b, Noelle Saillant ^a,^b, Leigh Anne Dageforde ^a,^b,^⁎
^a Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
^b Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

^∗Corresponding author. Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, White 517, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.Massachusetts General Hospital55 Fruit St, White 517BostonMA02114USA

Abstract

Introduction

There is variation in exposure to transplantation in undergraduate medical education. We created a program pairing medical students with transplant patients for semi-structured, virtual encounters and studied the impact on both students and patients using qualitative content analysis.

Methods

Fifty medical students were paired with transplant recipients and donors for non-medical virtual encounters. Separate focus groups were conducted, deidentified, and analyzed using a constant comparative method.

Results

Three themes related to the student experience emerged: transplant-related relationships, a deeper understanding of the patient's journey to transplant, and alterations of their personal view of organ donation and transplantation. Three themes emerged from the patient's experiences: the benefits of conversations, the patient as a teacher, and spreading the message of organ donation and transplantation.

Conclusions

This novel program demonstrates that virtual student-patient interactions are a useful approach to engage patients and a unique way to teach medical students about transplantation and donation.

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Highlights

•	Virtual, non-medical interactions between students and patients are mutually beneficial.
•	Students developed a more complete understanding of transplantation from patients.
•	Patients processed their transplant in a new way and were empowered as teachers.

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Keywords : Undergraduate medical education, Transplant, Qualitative analysis, Patient educator, Organ donation

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Virtual student-transplant patient interactions empower patients and enhance student transplantation knowledge - 09/12/21

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