Practice makes perfect! Patient safety starts in medical school: Do instructional videos improve clinical skills and hygiene procedures in undergraduate medical students?

Moodle Innovation Learning Technology for Medical Education: From Theory to Practice

“…Moodle has been successfully used in teaching anesthesiology and emergency medicine [20,21], surgery [22], thoracic surgery [23], acute medicine [24], urology [25,26], otolaryngology [27], dental radiology [28], thoracic surgery [23], blood transfusions [29], ophthalmology [30], primary health care and sexual and reproductive health services management [31], Chinese herbal medicine [32]. Via Moodle LMS courses on anatomy [33], physiology [34], medical physics [18], vaccination [35], tuberculosis [36], orthopedics [37], and even COVID-19 [38] were provided to medical students. Pharmacy [39,40], and dental students [41] also have benefited from Moodle LMS during e-learning.…”

“…Not initially designed for teaching medicine-related subjects, Moodle, however, is globally used in this field, adding to improvement of a pandemic-related disruption in educational processes. The review shows that use of the Moodle LMS is widely adopted among medical universities worldwide in order to provide a non-stop educational process to undergraduate medical [35,20,33,25,53,32,30,21,54,38,15] and pharmacy [40,39] students under pandemic conditions. During 2019-2021 a number of online courses were provided to medical students in Universities of Austria [35,21], Germany [20,25,30,54], Italy [53], Turkey [38], China [32,15], and Nicaragua [33].…”

“…The review shows that use of the Moodle LMS is widely adopted among medical universities worldwide in order to provide a non-stop educational process to undergraduate medical [35,20,33,25,53,32,30,21,54,38,15] and pharmacy [40,39] students under pandemic conditions. During 2019-2021 a number of online courses were provided to medical students in Universities of Austria [35,21], Germany [20,25,30,54], Italy [53], Turkey [38], China [32,15], and Nicaragua [33]. The courses included training in hygiene, human and dental medicine, anatomy, urology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, resuscitation, etc.…”

“…But Table 1 demonstrates that for the majority of the educational institutions the only available solution was online teaching only, even when the courses were including some clinical skills or procedures to be learned. In order to achieve sustained improvement in routine procedures and anchor patient safety in the undergraduate medical curriculum, the Medical University of Vienna developed online instructional videos on clinical skills and hygiene procedures permanently available as preparation for the first clinical clerkship [35]. Short films explaining how to insert urinary catheters in women and men were produced and provided online.…”

“…A total of 647 students viewed one of the two videos on urinary catheters, 623 responded to the online Moodle questionnaire completely. 85.2% reported being better able to recall individual steps and procedures, 96.7% positively rated the fact that instructional videos were available on the Medical University of Vienna's website, more than half were better able to remember critical hygiene practices, which is very important prior to the first clerkship to ensure the highest level of patient safety possible [35]. The Bielefeld University has built a multimedia eLearning environment for fourth year medical students covering the medical school curriculum "anesthesiology and emergency medicine" [20].…”