Learning in a High-Stress Clinical Environment: Stressors Associated with Medical Students' Clerkship Training on Labor and Delivery.

Abstract:

:Phenomenon: Obstetrics and gynecology can be a high-stress clinical environment for medical students due to the specialty's fast-paced and unpredictable nature. Little is known about learning stressors for medical students on the obstetrics and gynecology clerkship to inform stress-reducing interventions and improve learning experience. This study investigated (a) which aspects of the learning environment are most stressful for obstetrics and gynecology clerkship students, (b) how perceived learning stressors in this environment differ for medical students and teachers (residents, fellows, and faculty), and (c) what interventions students propose to address these stressors. Approach: From May 2015 to April 2016, we conducted semistructured individual interviews with 3rd-year medical students from obstetrics and gynecology clerkship cohorts (n = 52) as well as clerkship teachers (n = 10) at an academic medical center. Two investigators used a qualitative Framework Method approach to analyze the interview data and agree upon final themes. Findings: We identified labor and delivery as the most stressful learning environment and four labor and delivery-related themes of students' learning stressors: context (pace, logistics, nature of childbirth, and nonroutine schedule), learning tasks (student role and assignments and the amount of new knowledge and skills), communication (terminology used in conversation and interacting with the labor and delivery team), and clinical scenario (crisis, emergency, and patient refusal of student involvement). Whereas students identified context as causing most of the stress, teachers concentrated on stressors related to learning tasks. Insights: Learning stressors associated with students' educational experience in the clinical context of labor and delivery are challenging for medical students. In addition to the specific content of these challenges, the recognition that teachers' assumptions about sources of stressors are different from those of students is an important finding and has implications for changing the learning environment. Clerkship programs are encouraged to provide practical guidelines and embed an introduction of the clinical learning environment into the Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship orientation curriculum.

journal_name

Teach Learn Med

authors

Johnson NR,Pelletier A,Chen X,Manning-Geist BL

doi

10.1080/10401334.2019.1575742

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-08-01 00:00:00

pages

385-392

issue

4

eissn

1040-1334

issn

1532-8015

journal_volume

31

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