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William McAllister1, Caitrin Curtis1, Andrew Brown1
1Fourth-Year Medical Student, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.
Introduction:
The ability to apply knowledge gained in neuroscience coursework to a clinical scenario is found to be difficult by many medical students. Neuroscience is both important for future clinical practice and an area frequently tested on USMLE Step 1 examinations.
Methods:
Second-year medical students created a peer-led flipped classroom to help first-year students practice applying medical neuroscience course information to clinical situations and demonstrate how that information might be tested in board-style questions. The second-year students designed a series of board-style questions that included explanations for both the correct and incorrect answers. We divided the first-year students (n = 80) into small groups during the flipped classroom sessions, where they were led by second-year medical students in discussion about the questions and clinical situations.
Results:
Students reported agreement that the session addressed gaps in their knowledge and provided them with useful critical thinking skills for approaching board-style questions (83% and 81% agreed or strongly agreed, respectively).
Discussion:
The flipped classroom improved student confidence in both applying neuroscience concepts to clinical scenarios and to board-style vignette questions.
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