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To assess undergraduate medical students' perceptions of vascular surgery, curriculum exposure, and self-reported confidence in vascular clinical examination skills.

October 31, 2023Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandOpen Access

VENUM (Vascular Education iN Undergraduate Medicine): a multicentre evaluation of undergraduate vascular education in the UK

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NSNawaz Z. SafdarLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust JFJack FilanNewcastle University KJKartik JainUniversity of Twente

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Multicentre survey reveals limited clinical exposure and knowledge gaps in final-year medical students, highlighting risks to future specialty recruitment and patient care.

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To assess undergraduate medical students' perceptions of vascular surgery, curriculum exposure, and self-reported confidence in vascular clinical examination skills.
Cross-sectional JISC survey disseminated by 77 research leads to final-year medical students across 26 medical schools in the UK during the 2022/2023 academic year (N=240).
Survey data were evaluated using quantitative descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and thematic analysis.
Of 240 respondents (54% female), 45% never had a vascular placement, 24% had never performed a vascular-focused clinical examination, and 26% reported low confidence performing ankle brachial pressure index measurement.
Knowledge of peripheral arterial disease morbidity was answered correctly by only 17% of respondents compared with 92% for angina (chi-square test p<0.001), alongside qualitative perceptions that the specialty is non-inclusive.

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Safdar et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aad171a31343f77f73de941 https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2023.0048

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Multicentre survey reveals limited clinical exposure and knowledge gaps in final-year medical students, highlighting risks to future specialty recruitment and patient care.

VENUM (Vascular Education iN Undergraduate Medicine): a multicentre evaluation of undergraduate vascular education in the UK

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VENUM (Vascular Education iN Undergraduate Medicine): a multicentre evaluation of undergraduate vascular education in the UK

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