A needs-based analysis of teaching on vaccinations and COVID-19 in German medical schools

• Verfasst von: Baessler, Franziska [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Zafar, Ali [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Mengler, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Natus, Ricarda Nadine [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Dutt, Anne J. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kuhlmann, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Çinkaya, Emre [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hennes, Simon [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: A needs-based analysis of teaching on vaccinations and COVID-19 in German medical schools
• Verf.angabe: Franziska Baessler, Ali Zafar, Katharina Mengler, Ricarda Nadine Natus, Anne Josephine Dutt, Manuel Kuhlmann, Emre Çinkaya and Simon Hennes
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: 19 June 2022
• Umfang: 15 S.
• Begleitmaterial: Supplementary material
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 18.08.2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Vaccines
• Ort Quelle: Basel : MDPI, 2013
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 10(2022), 6, Artikel-ID 975, Seite 1-15
• ISSN Quelle: 2076-393X
• DOI: doi:10.3390/vaccines10060975
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: communication
• Sach-SW: COVID-19
• Sach-SW: curriculum mapping
• Sach-SW: medical curriculum
• Sach-SW: teaching
• Sach-SW: vaccination
• Sach-SW: vaccine education
• Sach-SW: vaccine hesitancy
• Sach-SW: vaccine scepticism
• Sach-SW: vaccines
• K10plus-PPN: 1814664254

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for improving public confidence in vaccines. Academic gaps and redundancies on vaccinations must be identified to revise the medical curriculum for up-to-date training of medical students. This cross-sectional survey assessed the status of vaccine-related teaching in general and specific to COVID-19 in medical schools across Germany. A total of 4313 medical students completed a questionnaire comprising items on national learning goals and perceived needs for teaching on vaccinations. Mixed methods were used to analyse data quantitatively for relative frequencies (%) and correlations between teaching items and semesters (Spearman’s rho), and qualitatively (content analysis). Our findings showed that 38.92% of the students were dissatisfied with teaching on vaccine-preventable diseases, but the perceived satisfaction increased in later semesters (r = 0.46, p < 0.001). Moreover, 75.84% and 68.15% of the students were dissatisfied with teaching related to vaccine scepticism and vaccine-related communication strategies, respectively. Furthermore, 63.79% reported dissatisfaction with teaching on COVID-19 disease and 72.93% with teaching on COVID-19 vaccines. A total of 79.12% stated they educated others on COVID-19 and its vaccines and 75.14% felt responsible to do so. A majority of the medical students were dissatisfied with teaching on dealing with vaccine scepticism, communication strategies and COVID-19 vaccines. We recommend practice-oriented vaccine education, especially for teaching communication skills to medical students.