Student Perceived Value of Reading Assignments During Mandatory Clerkship-Years OMM Course
While the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation’s standards require osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) curriculum throughout all years of osteopathic medical school, providing curriculum to expand student’s OMM knowledge base and osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) experiences is challenging. Survey data from our pilot clerkship-years OMM course in 20141 demonstrated elevated levels of confidence in and intent to provide OMT in future practices. To determine whether assigned readings—one of the two major components of the clerkship-years OMM course—are perceived as valuable to the osteopathic medical students. A mandatory clerkship-years OMM course was implemented in the 2014 third-year curriculum and 2015 fourth-year curriculum. Chapter reading assignments required a passing grade on an online quiz for completion. Following each reading quiz, a survey requested the students to respond whether individual chapter reading assignments were perceived to be of value to them or contributed to their learning. Of the 223 students in the 2017 third-year class, 220 (99%) responded. Of the 207 students in the 2018 fourth-year class, responses ranged from 193 to 204 (93%–99%). Among the third-year students, responses ranged from 205 to 218 (93%–99%) for students reporting individual chapter reading assignments were of value and contributing to their learning, and among fourth-years, their responses ranged from 185 to 201 (91%–99%). A prior study of our curriculum1 demonstrated elevated student levels of confidence in and intent to provide OMT in their future practices. As one of the two major components of the curriculum, this study demonstrates that mandatory reading assignments incorporated in an OMM course were overwhelmingly perceived as valuable and contributing to students’ learning.Abstract
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Financial disclosures: none reported.
Dr. Pickos was a fourth-year student when this manuscript was submitted for publication.