Journal of Advances in Medical Education & Professionalism

Review article

How Digital Storytelling Applied in Health Profession Education: A Systematized Review

RITA MOJTAHEDZADEH; AEEN MOHAMMADI; AMIR HOSSEIN EMAMI; AFAGH ZAREI

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 63-78

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2021.87856.1326

Abstract

Introduction: Storytelling is one of the earliest ways to share scientific advancements and discoveries. The advent of technology has updated this ancient art into a digitalized ... Read More Introduction: Storytelling is one of the earliest ways to share scientific advancements and discoveries. The advent of technology has updated this ancient art into a digitalized form. The boundaries between the digital storytelling (DST), and other types of videos are unclear. Therefore, in this review, the process, aim, producers, and uses of DST in health profession education have been reviewed.Methods: This study is a systematized review, which is in nature like a systematic review with only a few differences in the comprehensive search and quality assessment procedure. All studies, whose duplicates were removed, were retrieved from Science Direct, PubMed, and Scopus databases or through google scholar search engine screened in 3 stages: title, abstract and full study. All journal articles including experimental, case study and case report, mixed method, and qualitative studies in English language in the field of health profession education were chosen for this review after being evaluated based on QUESTS dimensions.Results: In total, 35 articles were included in the review. The studies had been done in health promotion, nursing education, medical education, patient education, social work education, andcommunity health education. In some of these studies, the producers and users of digital stories were different, which is in contrast with center for digital storytelling that emphasizes the process of DST. The results of this review showed that all stakeholders of health system could be producers of digital stories with various aims; e.g. community health, empathy promotion, attitude and behaviorchange, clinical thinking, and skills improvement. Conclusion: This systematized review indicated that DST has some applications in different subjects in different fields of health professions and with a potential to be used by different stakeholders of health system. According to the definition of DST, digital storytelling involves the process of writing a script to produce a digital story by one individual or a group. Consequently, there is a difference between DST and producing a digital story. Therefore, researchers should consider the correct use of this term in their studies. Although few interventional and high-quality studies have been conducted in this area, further quantitative and qualitative research is suggested.

Original Article

Exploring the educational challenges in emergency medical students: A qualitative study

ALI AFSHARI; MASOUD KHODAVEISI; EFAT SADEGHIAN

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 79-84

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2021.88535.1344

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Introduction: Emergency medical services (EMS) are provided in the difficult and unpredictable conditions of prehospital settings. Therefore, EMS students need to receive ... Read More

Original Article

Military nurses’ Experiences of Interprofessional education in Crisis Management: a Qualitative Content Analysis

ZOHREH VAFADAR; MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN AGHAEI; ABBAS EBADI

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 85-93

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2021.87653.1317

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Introduction: Today’s human health care needs are so complex and dealing with them requires interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, which must be learned by the ... Read More

Original Article

Pathology of General Practice Curriculum from the Viewpoint of Students and Professors

SHAPOUR BADIEE AVAL; ALI EMADZADEH; MARYAM POURSHIRAZI; HOSEIN KARIMI MOONAGHI; SEYED JAVAD HOSSEINI; ZAHRA ABBASI SHAYE; GOLNAZ SABOURI; FATEMEH HOSSEINI DOLATABADI

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 94-101

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2021.87035.1287

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Introduction: Based on the needs of the health system, continuous revising and monitoring are essential for General Practice (GP) Curriculum. The present study was conducted ... Read More

Original Article

The use of crossword puzzles as an educational tool

PEYMAN ZAMANI; SOMAYEH BIPARVA HAGHIGHI; MAJID RAVANBAKHSH

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 102-108

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2021.87911.1330

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Introduction: Instruction in teacher-centered formats may lead to early learning fatigue, which in turn, decelerates students’knowledge retrieval. Presently, teachers try ... Read More Introduction: Instruction in teacher-centered formats may lead to early learning fatigue, which in turn, decelerates students’knowledge retrieval. Presently, teachers try to increase students’participation and their active attention to course content by incorporating effective, applicable, low-cost, and enjoyable teaching apparatuses.Methods: The participants of this quasi-experimental study were the students of speech therapy in 4th semester (n=83) at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. They were simplerandomly divided into two groups of experimental (who received the crossword puzzle accompanied by lecture or the hybrid method as Group A) and control (who received the traditionalmethod as Group B). The students’ knowledge level and students’satisfaction with their received instruction methods were assessed as outcome measures throughout the experiment for both groups. The test score of students’ initial knowledge of the concepts in Speech Therapy, the score from the semester final exam of the courses in forms of multiple choice questions, and the retainedlearning score were calculated as the pre-test, post-test and a follow-up measurement, respectively. Independent-samples T-test for comparative analyses of students’ satisfaction between the pretestand post-test, and multivariate repeated measures ANOVA test were used to analyze the students’ knowledge level at three time-points (before, immediately after, and one month after thetrainings). The data were analyzed using SPSS ver. 18.0 software, and at the level of statistical significance of P≤0.05. Results: Both educational methods significantly improved the students’ knowledge level after the trainings (P=0.030); however, the mean score of knowledge and learning of Group A (mean=17.14) were significantly higher than that of Group B (mean=16.02) immediately after (P=0.036) and one month after the trainings (mean=18.26 vs. 16.10) (P=0.001). The mean score of students’ satisfaction in Group A was also significantly higher than that in Group B (P=0.010).Conclusion: Utilizing the crossword puzzle as an enjoyable and participatory teaching tool accompanied by lecture could improve management quality in Speech Therapy sessions.

Original Article

Calculation of the Cost of Student Education: A Case Study of Shiraz Medical School

MOHAMMAD NAMAZI; SAHAR ZARE

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 109-122

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2020.86837.1271

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Introduction: Given the importance of the education system in the health sector and the necessity to calculate the cost in this sector, this study aimed to calculate the cost ... Read More

Letter to Editor

Physiology of ECG: A ‘Mannequin’ based approach for first year medical students

PUJA DULLOO; CHAITRI SHAH

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 123-124

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2020.85262.1175

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Introduction: Physiology, the foundation for medicine, learnt by animal experiments have long been replaced by computer or simulation or mannequin based teaching. Mannequin usage for ... Read More

Letter to Editor

Practicing procedural skills in clinical settings: A medical student’s perspective

ZOYA MEHDI; LAILA HAZARA; KHULAT SAQI; SAMINEH YOUSEFI

Volume 9, Issue 2 , April 2021, Pages 125-126

https://doi.org/10.30476/jamp.2020.86425.1237

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We read with great interest ‘Exploring undergraduate medical students’ perception of learning procedural skills and its outcomes in clinical settings’ (1) as third ... Read More

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Volume & Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 63-126

How Digital Storytelling Applied in Health Profession Education: A Systematized Review

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Exploring the educational challenges in emergency medical students: A qualitative study

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Military nurses’ Experiences of Interprofessional education in Crisis Management: a Qualitative Content Analysis

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Pathology of General Practice Curriculum from the Viewpoint of Students and Professors

Abstract

The use of crossword puzzles as an educational tool

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Calculation of the Cost of Student Education: A Case Study of Shiraz Medical School

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Physiology of ECG: A ‘Mannequin’ based approach for first year medical students

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Practicing procedural skills in clinical settings: A medical student’s perspective

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