Expanding medical student interaction in neurology with a redesigned student interest group in neurology (sign) chapter

Quantitative Description of Medical Student Interest in Neurology and Psychiatry.

CONTEXT Given the well-documented shortage of physicians in primary care and several other specialties, quantitative understanding of residency application and matching data among osteopathic and allopathic medical students has implications for predicting trends in the physician workforce. OBJECTIVES To estimate medical student interest in neurology and psychiatry based on numbers of applican...

Assessment of medical student clinical competencies in the neurology clinic.

Objective evaluation of medical student clinical skills is difficult. In this study, medical students and neurology faculty independently completed a form on new clinic patients documenting anatomic localization, diagnosis, diagnostic tests, and management. We found students and faculty agreed significantly more often in anatomic lesion location and diagnosis than in ordering diagnostic tests o...

Reflections: neurology and the humanities: a sheep in wolf 's clothing: a medical student among neurosurgeons.

Correction: Remodeling neuroscience education in medical student training: how early exposure and mentorship are promoting student interest in neurology and neurosurgery

[This corrects the article on p. 1064 in vol. 11, PMID: 27630681.].

A practical approach for successful small group teaching in medical schools with student centered curricula

There has been a paradigm shift in the teaching strategies fromdidactic or teacher-centered to more vibrant student centeredapproaches. For the last five decades, small group teaching(SGT) has been a hallmark of this reorientation of educationalstrategies especially in medical schools, which use problem-basedlearning as a core educational tool. The key strength of ...