牛津大学的学生Kaycee Fillmore说, M3, 最近去了坎昆, 墨西哥, to present her research at the International Association of 医疗 Science Educators (IAMSE) 2023 Annual Conference.

她的项目, titled “Implementation of SDL in Preclinical Respiratory 医疗 Course,是通过海报展示的. The research focused on the benefits of self-directed learning (SDL) in medical education.

IAMSE会议于6月10日至13日举行, and was the first conference that Fillmore presented at, 更不用说出席了. She described the experience as “confidence-building.”

“这是一个非常友好的环境，”她说. “(人们)问你问题, 然后你开始意识到, ‘Oh, I really do know a lot about this topic and I can talk about it.’”

“They say partaking in research actually helps you learn how to learn, 这完全正确,她补充道。. “关于研究的一切, whether you’re finding out the answers yourself, or you're talking to other people and learning from them — that's going to be super important as all of us students progress to whatever specialties we go into.”

自主学习

Fillmore’s research began as a required project in her medical education — the second-year 开始 研究项目. 克劳迪奥·科尔特斯博士.D., associate professor served as her mentor for the project.

The project examined respiratory courses at OUWB that were taught in 2021 and 2022. In these courses, the students were given an SDL activity. 然后, 同学们对SDL进行了反思, and Fillmore and Cortes coded their responses to look for certain themes.

The results were encouraging — many respondents indicated that they developed their presentation skills and learned how to work better with their teammates.

这个话题对医学院来说很重要, as the Liaison Committee on 医疗 教育 requires them to implement this type of approach to learning.

“We wanted to see if the students were thinking that they were using those components, like figuring out where the gaps in your information or in your knowledge are going and finding the information,菲尔莫说.

“The reason they implement it in med school is to make sure that we can do that as doctors in the future on our own without having anybody to tell us to go read a textbook or something like that.”

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Fillmore said her favorite part of the conference was meeting the other student presenters.

“和其他学生交谈, 再生, and realizing that we're all going through the same things and we're all hoping we're going to be doctors or dentists is really cool,”她说。.

Another significant takeaway for Fillmore was the level of effort that goes into medical education.

“I did not realize how much research and work goes into the realm of medical education before going to this conference,菲尔莫说. “You see people who have dedicated their whole careers to learning and researching more about medical education. It was very eye-opening to see it from that aspect because I only ever see it as a student.”

Fillmore was well-supported at the conference — many OUWB faculty members attended in 2023, 包括Stefanie Attardi, Ph.D.她是美国著名的心理学家 Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation 在同一个会议上.

Attardi said that student participation in these conferences helps faculty strengthen their curriculum because they develop new ideas to share based on what they learn from different institutions and people from other locations.

“It helps us to continue to improve our own curriculum and be on the pulse of the latest things that are happening in medical education,”她说。.

“Our medical students are going to be future medical educators themselves, even if they don’t go on to become a faculty member affiliated with a university,阿塔尔迪补充道. “When they become residents and attending doctors, they’re going to be training the people that are newer on the scene.”

Cortes, who attended the conference alongside Fillmore, echoed a similar sentiment.

“It's very important that students participate,” he said. “他们将会取代我们. And that's why it's so important that they acquire these experiences.”

Fillmore said she was grateful for the support from the OUWB faculty showed her.
“It made me feel very proud to be an OUWB student because so many of our faculty were there presenting and (looking) into medical education more,菲尔莫说.

整体, Fillmore said the experience is something that she will take with her as she continues on her trajectory to become a physician.

“研究 conferences are super important because it makes you realize how much you still need to know, 其他人知道多少, 你能从这些人身上学到多少,”她说。. “It’s very relevant to what my poster was about…(It teaches you) to be a self-directed learner.”

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