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| Title |
Medical students’ perceptions about the added educational value of student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the Dominican Republic
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| Published in |
Global Health Research and Policy, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s41256-016-0011-x |
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| Authors |
Helena J. Chapman, Jessica Bottentuit-Rocha |
| Abstract |
This purpose of this report was to examine the perceptions of medical students about the strengths, limitations, and recommendations for improvement of the first known student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the Dominican Republic (DR), as they relate to the added value applied to their educational training. A retrospective review was conducted on evaluation reports completed by five medical students who coordinated the implementation of three annual HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in five DR communities, between 2012 and 2014. Thematic analysis was used to identify emerging themes related to perceived strengths, limitations, and recommendations for improvement and develop an acronym related to program strengths as value added to medical education. Students highlighted that program strengths were the use of social media technology to facilitate communication and culture-based creativity to capture the attention of target audiences; and limitations were inadequate financial support and HIV-related cultural stigma, due to lack of disease knowledge and awareness or perceived contrasts between the federal system and faith-based community. Recommendations for program improvement, such as comprehensive event preparation and knowing the target audience, were described as key to maximizing the delivery of health messages. Our results highlighted that medical students gained expertise in the effective use of social media technology, culture-based creativity, and team synergy to disseminate HIV/AIDS health information across five DR communities. Students participated in these extracurricular community health campaigns, strengthening skills in communication, health advocacy, and leadership for their medical training. They served as human resources for health and can pave the way as future clinicians and indispensable health educators in local and national health collaborations. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 38 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 16% |
| Researcher | 4 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 16% |
| Unknown | 8 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 18% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 8% |
| Psychology | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 3 | 8% |
| Unknown | 10 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2016.
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#7,473,870
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#115
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#112,074
of 349,050 outputs
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#3
of 6 outputs
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