The Role and Impact of Dyslexia Awareness Workshops in the Medical Curriculum

Background: To increase recognition of the number students who study medicine with dyslexia and support available, it is important to cultivate a culture in which peers can fellow academically pastorally. This aims understand medical students’ perceptions confidence supporting before after workshop on Dyslexia. Method: Pre-Post Intervention Evaluation form 36 1st year start small group awareness session one month using standardized 36-item True/False/Don’t know questionnaire “A scale knowledge beliefs about developmental dyslexia” elicit any significant change dyslexia. A 6-item Likert Scale was also administered same time frame measure terms academically, emotionally, signposting reasonable adjustments further support. Results: Pre-dyslexia workshop, mean score 15.22, post-intervention this improved 24.03 (p< 0.001). Additionally, pre-intervention greater than 70% participants reported feeling not confident items associated dyslexic or changed 88% agreeing strongly these items. Conclusion: At baseline level, have less precise accuracy are academically. The findings suggest that workshops curriculum benefits increasing providing their peers.