A Multielement Community Medicine Curriculum for the Family Medicine Clerkship

Enhancing the hospice curriculum within the family medicine clerkship.

BACKGROUND Medical schools are improving end-of-life (EOL) care curricula; however, students rarely practice EOL communication skills in a safe learning environment. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to study which curriculum improves students' ability to discuss hospice care. METHODS We conducted a study of six family medicine clerkship blocks; three taught with a didactic curriculum (A) and thr...

STFM unveils the National Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum website.

Multifaceted Assessment in a Family Medicine Clerkship:

C linical competence is multifaceted and requires the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.1 Its assessment also requires an integrated and multifaceted approach.2 Assessment of clinical competence should use a variety of instruments to provide a 360° picture of each learner’s development.2 However, if one accepts that competence is not just about possessing the required knowledge, s...

Consensus Development of a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Clerkship Curriculum

INTRODUCTION As emergency medicine (EM) has become a more prominent feature in the clinical years of medical school training, national EM clerkship curricula have been published to address the need to standardize students' experiences in the field. However, current national student curricula in EM do not include core pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) concepts. METHODS A workgroup was formed ...

Clinical resources to teach components of a new Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This retrospective study was designed to determine the capacity of a 6-week distributed Family Medicine Clerkship to provide student documented patient encounters that could facilitate instructions on the acute illness and chronic disease components of the new Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum (FMCC). The FMCC was developed to standardize core clinical education exp...