Mini-med school for Aboriginal youth: experiential science outreach to tackle systemic barriers.
Mini-med school for Aboriginal youth: experiential science outreach to tackle systemic barriers.
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DOI：
10.3402/meo.v20.29561
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Crowshoe LL
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作者：
Henderson RI;Williams K;Crowshoe LL
为了解决低收入和少数民族学生在进入医学院方面遇到的系统性障碍，卡尔加里大学的卡明医学院率先为土著学生开展了一项全年小型医学院外展活动。初中和高中的年轻人一般参加半天的课程或15-25营地，分成小组进行多节活动。医学本科生在医疗站指导年轻人，提供体检、阅读x射线和解剖学方面的经验课程。医学院的所有资源都以实物形式提供，包括中午的比萨饼午餐，而社区合作伙伴则为与会者组织交通。向社区开放医学院及其资源为资源有限的学校提供了巨大的好处，这些学校往往在科学教育资源方面受到限制。该模式也是为了解决医疗行业在吸引和留住来自服务不足人群的学生方面的挑战。来自边缘化社区的学生的入学率和顺利完成医学教育的前景增加了一个真实的可能性，尽管很难衡量，这可能增加最有可能返回这种具有挑战性的环境并在其中工作的劳动力。为土著青年开办的小型医学院强调了不同伙伴之间的长期互利，鼓励医学教育工作者和社区科学教育工作者探讨在各自区域深化伙伴关系的可能性。
Addressing systemic barriers experienced by low-income and minority students to accessing medical school, the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine has spearheaded a year-round, mini-med school outreach initiative for Aboriginal students. Junior and senior high school youth generally attend the half-day program in classes or camps of 15–25, breaking into small groups for multisession activities. Undergraduate medical education students mentor the youth in stations offering experiential lessons in physical examination, reading x-rays, and anatomy. All resources from the medical school are offered in-kind, including a pizza lunch at midday, whereas community partners organize transportation for the attendees. Opening the medical school and its resources to the community offers great benefits to resource-constrained schools often limited in terms of science education resources. The model is also an effort to address challenges among the medical professions around attracting and retaining students from underserved populations. The prospect of increasing admission rates and successful completion of medical education among students from marginalized communities poses a real, though difficult-to-measure, possibility of increasing the workforce most likely to return to and work in such challenging contexts. A mini-medical school for Aboriginal youth highlights mutual, long-term benefit for diverse partners, encouraging medical educators and community-based science educators to explore the possibilities for deepening partnerships in their own regions.