Perception, knowledge, and interest of urologic surgery: A medical student survey
dc.contributor.author | Whiles, Bristol B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Jeffrey A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Griebling, Tomas L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Thurmon, Kerri L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-17T15:12:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-17T15:12:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-09-13 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Whiles, B.B., Thompson, J.A., Griebling, T.L. et al. Perception, knowledge, and interest of urologic surgery: a medical student survey. BMC Med Educ 19, 351 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1794-5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30745 | |
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dc.description.abstract | Background Although only a limited number of medical schools require a formal educational rotation in urologic surgery, urology as a medical specialty continues to attract a large number of students into the match each year. The purpose of this study was to describe medical student awareness, perception, and knowledge of urology, to determine factors influencing students’ consideration of urology as a career, and to determine if prior urology clerkship experience is associated with differences in these variables.Methods In this cross-sectional study, medical students were electronically surveyed in 07/2016. Self-reported and question-based knowledge of urology were determined. A total of 25 factors were assessed with a five-point Likert scale to determine their influence on students’ consideration of urology as a career. Data analysis was performed using R.Results The survey was completed by 114 students (13.5% of all medical students). A total of 11(9.65%)students had previously participated in a urology clerkship. All students reported awareness of urology; however, only 74 students (64.9%) correctly identified the training pathway and job duties of urologists. Self-perceived knowledge of urology was poor but improved with increased medical school training. Question-based assessment also demonstrated increased knowledge with advanced medical school training (27% per year; p < 0.01). Prior urology clerkship experience appeared to be associated with increased urologic knowledge; however, this was confounded by year in medical school training. When assessing factors impacting students’ consideration of a career in urology, ‘combination of medicine and surgery’ was the most positively influential and ‘competitiveness of the specialty’ was the most negatively influential.Conclusions Although medical students are aware of urology as a specialty, they perceive their knowledge of urology as poor. However, knowledge of urology increases throughout medical school training. Multiple factors influence students’ consideration of urology as a career choice. Additional studies are needed to further explore how participation in a formal urology experience alters students’ perceptions and influences their consideration of urology as a career choice. | en_US |
dc.publisher | BMC | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Students | en_US |
dc.subject | Medical | en_US |
dc.subject | Knowledge | en_US |
dc.subject | Education | en_US |
dc.subject | Perception | en_US |
dc.subject | Urology | en_US |
dc.title | Perception, knowledge, and interest of urologic surgery: A medical student survey | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Whiles, Bristol B. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Thompson, Jeffrey A. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Griebling, Tomas L. | |
kusw.kuauthor | Thurmon, Kerri L. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Urology | en_US |
kusw.kudepartment | Biostatistics | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12909-019-1794-5 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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