Attitudes of veterinary medical students and medical students toward collaborative learning: an experiment

Abstract

This study measured the attitudes of 55 medical students and 30 veterinary medical students as they participated in an experiment of collaborative teaching and learning about basic surgical skills. Two parallel forms of an attitude questionnaire were developed, with three subscales: confidence in one's own surgical skill; collaboration with the other type of student; and inter-professional collaboration in general. These attitude scales were administered before and after an experiment involving the veterinary medical students teaching the medical students incision and exploratory laparoscopy in a laboratory setting using live rabbits. After the experiment, measures of the medical students' attitudes had increased significantly on all three subscales. Measures of the veterinary students' attitudes increased significantly on two subscales but declined on the subscale of inter-professional collaboration.

Interprofessional initiatives between the human health professions and veterinary medical students: a scoping review

“…Terms included ''cross training'' (Hermann, Johnson, Troutt, & Prudhomme, 2009), ''interdisciplinary collaboration'' (Edwards et al, 2004;Johnson, Ames, Jacko, & Watson, 2011), and ''interdisciplinary education'' (Lindenmayer & Schlaff, 2008). Further, the interventions included a range of objectives, participants (both healthcare professional students and postgraduate students) and settings.…”

“…Edwards et al, 2004;Waddell, Isaza, Murray, Glikes, & Davidson, 2010 and University of California Davis (UCD)) and postgraduate students (e.g. Johnson et al, 2011, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies (RDSVS); University of Angers, 2013) and ranged from a writing intensive practicum (Hermann et al, 2009), through to practical skills training in a laboratory session (Edwards et al, 2004), placements/fieldwork (Waddell et al, 2010), and synchronous intercampus videoconference sessions (UCD-UCR) (Tables I and II).…”

“…Edwards et al, 2004;Hermann et al, 2009), students from dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health (Root Kustritz & Nault, 2010), veterinary and human medical students, nursing, and dental students (Waddell et al, 2010), and osteopathic medicine, optometry, dental medicine, podiatric medicine, veterinary medicine, physical therapy, physician's assistant nursing, pharmacy (WUHS) ( Tables I and II).…”

“…Interventions were delivered in single one-off sessions (such as those developed by Johnson et al, 2011 andEdwards et al, 2004), a number of sessions over several weeks (e.g. Hermann et al, 2009), as several courses running through healthcare professional programmes (UM, and WUHS), and entire Master of Public Health (MPH) and One Health programmes (Olsen & Remington 2008, RDSVS, RVCUL, and the University of Angers) (Tables I and II).…”

“…sessions, courses, or programs) between the human health professions and veterinary medical students surgical skill, and collaboration with veterinary students which was also assessed using an attitude questionnaire (Edwards et al, 2004).…”