Academic Performance of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship Versus Rotation-Based Clerkship Students

International surgical clerkship rotation: perceptions and academic performance.

BACKGROUND Concerns about international training experiences in medical school curricula include the effect on student learning. We studied the educational effect of an international elective integrated into a traditional third-year (M3) surgical clerkship. METHODS A 1-week surgical elective in Haiti was available to M3 students during the conventional 8-week surgical clerkship each year for ...

Development of a longitudinal integrated clerkship at an academic medical center

In 2005, medical educators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), began developing the Parnassus Integrated Student Clinical Experiences (PISCES) program, a year-long longitudinal integrated clerkship at its academic medical center. The principles guiding this new clerkship were continuity with faculty preceptors, patients, and peers; a developmentally progressive curriculum wit...

Association of third-year medical students' first clerkship with overall clerkship performance and examination scores.

CONTEXT Anecdotal experience has suggested that third-year medical students whose first clerkship is internal medicine may have superior performance throughout the academic year. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the order of clerkships by specialty is associated with student performance. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Clerkship performance records of medical students at all 4 campuses of t...

Otolaryngology exposure in a longitudinal integrated clerkship setting

BACKGROUND Although 20-40% of primary care complaints are Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OtoHNS) related, little emphasis is placed on OtoHNS instruction at the undergraduate medical education level. An OtoHNS clerkship rotation is not required at most Canadian medical schools. Furthermore, at institutions offering an OtoHNS rotation, less than 20% of students are able to complete a plac...

Longitudinal, integrated clerkship education: better for learners and patients. Point.