Modification of medical student perceptions of the cancer experience

Cassileth, Barrie R.; Egan, Thomas A.

doi:10.1097/00001888-197910000-00007

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“…Prior to the elective the students expressed a degree of hopelessness for cancer patients. After the elective, it was shown that the students’ attitudes had become more positive (Cassileth & Egan, 1979).…”

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Educational strategies in curriculum development: the SPICES model

1984

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Six education strategies have been identified relating to the curriculum in a medical school. Each issue can be represented as a spectrum or continuum: student-centred/teacher-centred, problem-based/information-gathering, integrated/discipline-based, community-based/hospital-based, elective/uniform and systematic/apprenticeship-based. The factors supporting a more towards each end of the continuum are presented for each strategy. Newer schools tend to be more to the left on the continuum, established schools more to the right. Each school, however, has to decide where it stands on each issue and to establish its own profile. This SPICES model of curriculum strategy analysis can be used in curriculum planning or review, in tackling problems relating to the curriculum and in providing guidance relating to teaching methods and assessment.

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Section: Electives: Standard Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

Educational strategies in curriculum development: the SPICES model

1984

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“…As in the case of behavioural style there is a skill involved, one which some might have by nature but which others have to acquire, and this comprises the ability to deal with another's problems without identifying with them. Perhaps the best time for doing this will be during training, and there are some courses designed to help students to come to terms with the problems of the cancer patient and with the difficulties that they themselves will experience in treating her (Cassileth and Egan, 1979;Poole and Sansori-Fisher, 1979). Once qualified, however, a surgeon is likely to get little support or guidance in this respect from his colleagues, since this is another problem which is not talked about.…”

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The surgeon‐patient relationship in the context of breast cancer

1984

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“…Student attitudes were assessed by a 51-item instrument completed by the students immediately prior to and following the clerkship. Items in the questionnaire included 14 from the Cancer Attitude Survey (CAS) of Haley [6] and 15 previously used in testing medical students in other institutions [7]. Inclusion of these items permitted a comparison with the attitudes of other medical student and physician groups.…”

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“…The USC student responses to the items from the CAS did not duplicate the factor structure of the original study group [6], a result noted by others [7]. As we were interested in specific differences, ie, pediatric versus adult comparisons, and pre-post comparisons rather than factor structure, changes in attitude were measured using paired t-tests for each statement, concordant with the approach of Blanchard et a1 [7]. Table I1 includes representative items from each subject area.…”

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Medical students' concepts of childhood cancer and its management

Hays

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Williams

et al. 1985

Med. Pediatr. Oncol.

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Medical student's attitudes toward cancer and patients with cancer were studied prior to and following a required pediatric clerkship which included contact with children on an oncology service. Emphasis in the study was placed on the students' reactions to the child with cancer, and these were compared with the same students' attitudes in the context of the adult with cancer or general oncology. Early diagnosis is regarded as of more significance, and an aggressive therapeutic response following diagnosis of more urgency when the patient is a child. These attitudes, recognizing the importance of early diagnosis and expressing strong approval of aggressive therapy for the pediatric patient, increased during the clerkship. The students strongly supported a program aimed at return of the child to his normal activities with the least delay; recognized the special significance of long-range surveillance for secondary effects in the pediatric patient; and recommended the "center" as opposed to the community hospital as the site for care of the child with cancer. In other areas of cancer management, including (a) the importance of psychosocial support, (b) the problems of emotional involvement of the physician with the patient, and (c) care of the dying patient, attitudes toward patients in the two age groups was not significantly different.

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Modification of medical student perceptions of the cancer experience

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Educational strategies in curriculum development: the SPICES model

Educational strategies in curriculum development: the SPICES model

The surgeon‐patient relationship in the context of breast cancer

Medical students' concepts of childhood cancer and its management

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