The Community for Learning & Innovation (CLI) gives lecturers from Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) the opportunity to apply for a fellowship. With this fellowship, they research educational innovation, or carry out an educational project.
On this page you can read more about David Pols' (Erasmus MC) CLI Fellowship about the integration of general practice into the curriculum of fifth-year medicine students.
A dramatic increase in the demand for general practice services is expected. To encourage medical students to pursue general practice, Erasmus MC is integrating courses in its master curriculum that will expose students to general practice in their education.
During this fellowship project, they have evaluated the impact of a two-week-long intensive course in general practice on fifth-year medical students’ attitudes toward general practice. They used a 25-item survey to assess medical students’ knowledge, perception, and attitudes about general practice; the survey was administered before and after the course. Furthermore, structural interviews were used to study the experiences of the teachers that actually teach the students during their internships in the general practices. The objective of this study was to determine fifth-year medical students’ attitudes toward general practice before and after an intensive general practice course, as well as comparing their attitudes to medical students that didn’t follow such an intensive training at all.
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Pols, D.H.J., Kamps, A., Runhaar, J., Elshout, G., Van Halewijn, K.F., Bindels, P.J.E., Stegers-Jager, K.M. (2023). Medical students’ perception of general practice: a cross‑sectional survey. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04064-z
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David Pols is a general practitioner in Rotterdam. In 2011 he finished his GP training and started as a GP in Nieuw Beijerland. In November 2012, together with a colleague, he started a GP-practice in Rotterdam Charlois. His PhD was finished at Erasmus MC in 2017. This PhD project focused on the epidemiology of atopic disorders in children. Currently he is working at the department of general practice. He coordinates the ‘clinical reasoning’ program for bachelor students. Furthermore, as chairman of one of the education committees, he is involved in developing in implementing a new course concerning ‘Diversity and Inclusiveness’.
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