fmCASES National Examination as a Pretest in a Family Medicine Clerkship

Creating a multi-institutional family medicine clerkship examination: lessons learned.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Multiple choice examinations assess learners' attainment of medical knowledge. Developing multiple choice examinations that discriminate among learners is difficult and time-consuming. Many institutions avoid this effort by using the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) subject examinations, which can also provide comparisons to a national norm. The family medici...

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...

STFM unveils the National Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum website.

Correlation of the National Emergency Medicine M4 Clerkship Examination with USMLE Examination Performance

INTRODUCTION Assessment of medical students' knowledge in clinical settings is complex yet essential to the learning process. Clinical clerkships use various types of written examinations to objectively test medical knowledge within a given discipline. Within emergency medicine (EM), a new national standardized exam was developed to test medical knowledge in this specialty. Evaluation of the ps...

Group medical visits as a teaching tool in a family medicine clerkship.

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine medical students' learning outcomes following exposure to a 4-hour group medical visit (GMV) curriculum that focused on Spanish-speaking patients who had diabetes. The GMV was part of a 4-week block family medicine clerkship for third-year medical students. METHODS We conducted a 1-year longitudinal, prospective study using a before and after survey and a qual...