Description
Presentation given by Northwestern Health Sciences University faculty member Verena Van Fleet during the 2023 International Association of Medical Science Educators twenty-seventh annual conference in Cancun, Mexico.
Abstract
Students enter professional healthcare programs (PHP) with varying degrees of proficiency in basic sciences content knowledge from their various undergraduate programs, preparation for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and different levels of clinical experiences. To adapt to possible gaps in knowledge from incoming students, PHPs offer different assortments of pre-matriculation and review materials. The idea is that these materials will bring the students to be on the same page when they start the program (through pre-matriculation materials) and throughout the curriculum (through review materials). These materials are even more important this year, with students coming out of the COVID pandemic which disrupted their learning in different ways leading to even greater knowledge gaps coming into PHPs.
