Design and Implementation of a Competency-Based Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum

STFM unveils the National Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum website.

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...

[Design and implementation of a competency-based curriculum for medical education].

Competency-based education is a form of designing, developing, delivering and documenting instruction based on a set of objectives and results that have been recommended for medical education. This article describes the steps in the process of designing and implementing a competency-based curriculum at a new medical school in a Peruvian university. We present the process followed including cont...

Design and implementation of a longitudinal ambulatory clerkship in the first-year curriculum at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

In response to calls for medical education reform we designed and implemented a new Longitudinal Ambulatory Clerkship (LAC) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The LAC provides first-year medical students with their initial exposure to clinical medicine during a 12-month experience consisting of weekly clinic sessions with a practicing physician-mentor (preceptor) and longitudin...

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...