Medical education in Latvia: an overview of current practices and systems

Jain, Nityanand; Jersovs, Kirils; Safina, Taira; Pilmane, Mara; Jansone-Ratinika, Nora; Grike, Ieva; Petersons, Aigars

doi:10.3389/fmed.2023.1250138

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“…The METC aims to create and maintain a culture of simulation-based medical education (SBME) to ensure high-quality and safe skills training, professional competence development for healthcare and medical students and professionals. By offering modern simulation resources within a simulated learning environment, individuals are presented with a valuable opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and professional attitude required for the advancement of research and innovation in the domain of simulation-based medical education (Jain et al, 2023).…”

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The aim of the study was to explore social measurements and COVID-19 -related behavioral choices from a network structure perspective. We tested network models by comparing network structures in 46 countries by cultural dimensions (Hofstede et al., 2010). The pre-registered hypothesis was that the network structure of variables predicting COVID-19-related behavioral choices will be robust across countries, regardless of the mean differences of these variables between countries characterized by high vs low culture dimension indices. Behavioural choices toward COVID-19 situation were: physical hygiene, policy support, and physical contact. In network analysis we used several social/psychological constructs: social belonging, trait optimism, collective narcissism, moral identity, self-esteem, national identification, trait self-control, morality as cooperation, conspiracy beliefs, political ideology, and narcissism. We analysed twelve conditions based on dichotomized culture dimensions (high vs. low Power distance, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty avoidance, Long-term orientation, and Indulgence) across demographics (e.g., age, gender). We conducted network structure analysis using high-dimensional undirected graph estimation with glasso procedure splitting the data by culture dimensions in total with N = 40 795 individuals. The study findings indicated that the network models were fairly consistent across cultures with different scores on each of Hofstede's six cultural dimensions. This similarity reflects the previous studies in terms of the stability of associations between variables regardless of sex, age, and political beliefs.

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Simulated Hospital for Medical Students as an Essential Step Towards Guality in Clinical Work and Patient Safety

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Simulation-based education provides a transition from theory-based learning to the application of knowledge, skills, and attitudes in complex situations in conditions close to real healthcare facilities. In healthcare, a simulation-based learning approach provides the opportunity to learn skills in a safe environment and gain confidence in the students’ abilities before working in a real clinical setting. In the academic year 2022/2023, for 2 weeks, the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre (METC) in cooperation with the Department of Nursing and Midwifery implemented the concept of a simulated hospital to provide 114 international 3rd year students of the study programme “Medicine” with pre-clinical practice in a simulated environment in the fields of internal diseases and surgery. A simulated hospital is a concept in which the hospital environment is reproduced in the premises of the METC, encompassing 2 hospital wards, 6 patient rooms, 2 nursing stations, 2 medication rooms, a laboratory, and examination locations, as well as using 8 patient manikin and 38 simulated patients. Students provided a self-assessment of 64 skills (technical and non-technical) before and after pre-clinical practice using a scale from 1–5. Data were collected electronically and analyzed using IBM SPSS and compared statistically before and after the teaching intervention. Students demonstrated improvement in self-assessment of performance of all 64 skills. Students indicate that they not only learned new knowledge and skills, but also strengthened existing knowledge and skills. Students answer that they feel better prepared to work in a real clinical environment. One of the conclusions is that pre-clinical practice should be an integral part of the study process before working in a real clinical environment. that pre-clinical practice should be an integral part of the study process before working in a real clinical environment.

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Medical education in Latvia: an overview of current practices and systems

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