Assessing the Learning Environment at the University of Michigan Medical School Through a National Collaboration

Abstract

The Learning Environment Study involves 28 medical schools belonging to the Innovative Strategies for Transforming the Education of Physicians (ISTEP): an initiative founded by the American Medical Association in 2006. ISTEP is a unique medical education research collaborative that brings together individuals and institutions across the continuum of student/physician learning with a mission to foster evidence-based changes in physician education that will improve patient care. In early 2010, ISTEP developed a protocol to examine the undergraduate medical education environment: a prospective, repeated measures, longitudinal research design, employing a diverse set of established measures. The class of 2014 became the first cohort enrolled in this study, with 11 schools participating. A second cohort from the class of 2015 became the second cohort with 25 schools participating. The results reported here summarize the University of Michigan Medical School data for student empathy, patient-provider orientation, ways of coping, tolerance for ambiguity, and their perceptions of the learning environment at UMMS.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91290/1/poster1.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91290/3/MEDI01poster.pd