Enhancing medical education by creating learning opportunities and clinical electives in prison communities, phase 2: evaluation development

TitleEnhancing medical education by creating learning opportunities and clinical electives in prison communities, phase 2: evaluation development
Faculty/College/UnitMedicine
StatusCompleted
Duration2 Year
Initiation04/01/2009
Completion03/31/2011
Funding Details
Year 1: Project TitleEnhancing Undergraduate Medical Education by Creating Learning Opportunities and Clinical Electives in Prison Communities
Year 1: Project YearYear 1
Year 1: Funding Year2009/2010
Year 1: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 1: Principal InvestigatorRuth Elwood Martin
Year 1: Funded Amount42,000
Year 1: Team Members

Ruth Elwood Martin, Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine
Megan Smith, Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine
Daniel Malebranche, UBC Faculty of Medicine Class of 2011
John Koehn, UBC Faculty of Medicine Class of 2011

Year 1: Summary

This project is a novel opportunity to engage undergraduate medical students in prison health initiatives. There is currently no available elective or structured opportunity for undergraduate medical students to learn or be involved in prison health and education. Based upon the proposal of two medical students (named as applicants) and their discussions with the Director of the Division of Prison Health and Education (named as Principal applicant), the outcome-based objectives of this project would significantly enhance the learning opportunities and current curriculum for undergraduate medical students. This project would support medical students' initiatives to develop volunteer service and learning opportunities inside BC prisons during their first two years of undergraduate medical education; it would support the development, implementation, administration and evaluation of 4th year medical student undergraduate electives inside BC prisons; and finally it would begin the development of interdisciplinary prison health and education curriculum modules for undergraduate teaching and learning. By meeting these outcome-based objectives, the benefits of this project extend to the medical students, prison communities, and the wider health community alike.

Year 2: Project YearYear 2
Year 2: Funding Year2010/2011
Year 2: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 2: Principal InvestigatorMegan Smith
Year 2: Funded Amount19,430
Year 2: Team Members

Megan Smith, Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine
Ruth Elwood Martin, Co-Principal Investigator, Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine
Daniel Malebranche, UBC Faculty of Medicine Class of 2011
John Koehn, UBC Faculty of Medicine Class of 2011

Year 2: Summary

This project is a novel opportunity to engage undergraduate medical students in prison health initiatives. Previously, there has been no available elective or structured opportunity to engage undergraduate medical students in prison medicine and this proposal requests funding to continue building upon the developments of the project, awarded in the 2009/2010 TLEF competition, that address this gap in learning and education opportunities.

This project is to support the development, implementation, administration, and evaluation of prison medicine opportunities in 2nd year and 4th year undergraduate medical learning, as well as to develop interdisciplinary teaching modules for prison medicine learning. In addition, the current proposal is to support the growth of evaluation tools and to build upon the evaluations that are already employed to measure the success of the entire project (rather than the student or preceptor alone), including success for the prison communities.

This project is supported and administered by the Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education (CCPHE), specifically the coordinator and director of the CCPHE (as named as co-PI’s in this application). It is also supported by the two undergraduate medical students who conceptualized this proposal, as well as numerous professionals who are collaborating as part of the working advisory group.