Abstract
Background: As students progress through medical school, the student assumes teaching roles, but without formal training regarding how to teach.
 Methods: We administered surveys to 1st, 2nd and 4th year medical students asking about perceptions of teaching. The surveys were completed in the Fall (2019) and again in late Spring (2020). In the interim, students were given the opportunity to teach 5th graders during an outreach program. We gave the medical student volunteers a brief interactive session about the One Minute Preceptor (OMP) as a tool to teach the children. In the Spring survey, medical students who used the OMP were also asked about its utility in the pediatric setting.
 Results: Seventy-four students completed survey 1 and, of these, 51 completed the follow-up survey. Mean age was 24-27; 57% were female. Across both surveys, ≥70% were comfortable with and felt they understood their role as a teacher of trainees, peers and patients. However, <50% felt they knew any teaching method or had a plan for improving teaching skills. All felt that teaching was an important medical skill. Six students completed OMP training and the outreach program. All felt the OMP was useful to teach key points, provide feedback, and involve the learner. They also all felt the OMP should be taught in medical school.
 Conclusion: Medical students believe it is important to learn teaching skills. The OMP may be a useful addition to the medical school curriculum to help medical students teach in doctor-patient settings across ages and group sizes.
Highlights
The average medical student spends over twenty years acquiring as much knowledge and skills as humanly possible
The intervention was as follows: students were given the option to attend a brief (5-10 minute) pre-program presentation in which they could learn about and practice the One Minute Preceptor (OMP). The format of this presentation was designed based on literature that suggests a combination of video examples, didactic lecturing, active role playing, and discussion is helpful in teaching the OMP method to others. 3,11 The presentation began by emailing out two optional clinical teaching videos from YouTube—one reflecting a traditional approach and one reflecting the OMP approach. 12,13 Using the OMP method, the authors gave email prompts for the group of students to identify the differences between the two videos
Demographics Seventy-four medical students consented and participated in the Survey 1, of which 69% (n=51) completed the follow up, Survey 2 Table 1. Six of those 51 who completed both surveys self-selected to participate in the teaching outreach day where they learned about and used the OMP
Summary
The average medical student spends over twenty years acquiring as much knowledge and skills as humanly possible. The counter argument, is that during medical school, students are informally learning important history, physical, documentation, social, and emotional skills to be effective residents, so why not formally train them as teachers during medical school as well? The training of physicians as teachers could begin in medical school It is unclear how medical students feel about the importance of having formal teaching training added to their curriculum. Mean age was 24-27; 57% were female Across both surveys, ≥70% were comfortable with and felt they understood their role as a teacher of trainees, peers, and patients. The OMP may be a useful addition to the medical school curriculum to help medical students teach in doctor-patient settings across ages and group sizes
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