Acta Studiorum Medicorum et Biomedicorum

Open-access, peer-reviewed journal edited by Apostolos Zarros and published semiannually by St Cuthbert Press Ltd (Stanley, England, UK)

ISSN (print): 2977-6295
ISSN (online): 2977-6309

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Acta Stud. Med. Biomed.

1(1): 25–33 (2025)

TECHNICAL REPORT | open access

Proposing an undergraduate framework for intensifying medical training on stroke diagnosis and management via a multimodal approach

Konstantinos Kalafatakis*

Neurology Department, General Hospital of Athens “Pammakaristos”, Athens, Greece; Human–Computer Interaction Laboratory, School of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Ioannina, Arta, Greece (KK)
*corresponding author (kgkalafatakis@gmail.com; k.kalafatakis@uoi.gr)

Received: 19 May 2025; Revised: 20 June 2025; Accepted: 21 June 2025; Published: 28 June 2025

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15763799

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Abstract: The increasing prevalence of stroke at a global scale and the ever-growing complexity of its prompt and proper management by the healthcare personnel, involving pre-hospital, in-hospital emergency and subacute actions, as well as long-term rehabilitation and secondary preventive measures, create the need for shifting medical training on stroke to earlier stages. In this technical report, I propose an action plan for the improvement of undergraduate training on stroke by accommodating four teaching sessions dedicated to this topic into a relevant module of the medical curriculum. Modern educational technologies, such as augmented reality and multimedia, can assist the delivery of these sessions, and the structure of flipped classroom can also be followed in order to enhance the efficiency of the learning outcomes. Quality indices for assessing educational excellence of the proposed action plan, ethical remarks, as well as an indicative deployment, implementation, and dissemination timeline are also discussed. Finally, the philosophy of this action plan is placed it into the wider context of recent advances in medical education.

Keywords: action research; augmented reality in education; flipped classroom; multimedia in medical training; stroke

Kalafatakis K.: Proposing an undergraduate framework for intensifying medical training on stroke diagnosis and management via a multimodal approach. Acta Stud. Med. Biomed. 1(1): 25–33 (2025).
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15763799

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