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Adv Physiol Educ ; 44(1): 15-20, 2020 Mar 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31821033

RESUMO

Medical students have difficulty understanding the mechanisms underlying hyperkalemia-mediated local control of blood flow. Such control mechanisms are crucial in the brain, kidney, and skeletal muscle vasculature. We aimed to identify medical students' misconceptions via assessment of students' in-class knowledge and, subsequently, improve future teaching of this concept. In-class polling was performed with the TurningPoint clicker response system (n = 860) to gauge students' understanding of three physiological concepts related to hyperkalemia: membrane potential (Vm), conductance, and smooth muscle response. Vm includes the concepts of equilibrium potential (Veq) for specific ions, as well as driving force (DF = Vm - Veq). Students understood the concept of DF (~70% answered correctly), suggesting their understanding of Vm. However, students misunderstood that hyperkalemia results in depolarization (~52% answered correctly) and leads to an increase in potassium conductance (~31% answered correctly). Clarification of the type of smooth muscle as vascular increased the percentage of correct responses (~51 to 73%). The data indicate that students lacked knowledge of specific potassium conductance in various muscle types, resulting in divergent responses, such as the canonical depolarization in skeletal muscle versus hyperpolarization in smooth muscle cells during hyperkalemia. Misunderstanding of this crucial concept of conductance is directly related to the students' performance. Furthermore, we connected the paradoxical effect of hyperkalemia to pathological acute and chronic hyperkalemia clinical scenarios.


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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Hiperpotassemia/fisiopatologia , Músculo Liso Vascular/fisiopatologia , Fisiologia/educação , Estudantes de Medicina/psicologia , Ensino/psicologia , Humanos
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