Abstract
Medical students were surveyed shortly after completing the third year of medical school. TIle survey was designed to identify those areas of critical care medicine students had been exposed to and expressed interest in learning more about. In addition, the surveys sought to discern the level of confidence students felt with respect to different critical illnesses and intensive care unit (lCU) therapeutic modalities.Finally, the students were asked their opinion regarding the possibility or need for critical care medicine as pan of their medical school curriculum.The three most common topics of interest among medical students who had recently ftnished their third year in medical school were shock, hemodynamic monitoring, and mechanical ventilation. Less than 30% of the students surveyed felt "better-than-average" confidence on anyone of a number of critical care topics and treatment modalities. Of the 80% of students (n = 70) who completed the survey, 91% (n = 64) felt that critical care medicine should be made a pan of the medical school curriculum,6% (n = 4) felt it should not, and 3% (n = 2) were undecided.TIle survey results and the finding that most of the relevant literature acknowledges the need for critical care medicine in medical school has led us to conclude that a national core clerkship or a didactic lecture series in critical care medicine should be carefully designed and implemented into the undergraduate curriculum.
Highlights
~Iedical students were surveyed shonly after completing the third year of medical school
Of the 80% of students (n = 70) who completed the survey, 91% (n = 64) felt that critical care medicine should be made a pan of the medical school curriculum, 6% (n = 4) felt it should not, and 3% (n = 2) were undecided.TIle survey results and the finding that most of the relevant literature acknowledges the need for critical care medicine in medical school has led us to conclude that a national core clerkship or a didactic lecture series in critical care medicine should be carefully designed and implemented into the undergraduate curriculum
The results of our Critical Care Survey are significant in that most of the respondents (91 %) felt that critical care medicine should be required in the medical school curriculum
Summary
~Iedical students were surveyed shonly after completing the third year of medical school. Critical care unit rotations are typically offered only on an elective basis to medical students during their senior year in medical school Before considering whether such an elective status for critical care medicine is ideal, one must first examine how undergraduate curriculums are created. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is the agency responsible for the national accreditation of medical schools It is the official accrediting body of the educational programs leading to the doctor of medicine degree, and it is recognized for this purpose by the United States Department of Education and the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation [II. This committee recommends a set of curriculum guidelines, implementation of which (along with other criteria) is required for accreditation. The LCl\IE requires courses to be taught by all medical schools in the following three areas
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