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Educational outcomes of the Harvard Medical School-Cambridge integrated clerkship: a way forward for medical education.

PURPOSE The authors report data from the Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (CIC), a model of medical education in which students' entire third year consists of a longitudinal, integrated curriculum. The authors compare the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of students completing the CIC with those of students completing traditional third-year clerkships. METHOD The authors ...

Musculoskeletal medicine: an assessment of the attitudes and knowledge of medical students at Harvard Medical School.

PURPOSE To assess medical students' knowledge and clinical confidence in musculoskeletal medicine as well as their attitudes toward the education they receive in this specialty. METHOD A cross-sectional survey of students in all four years of Harvard Medical School was conducted during the 2005-2006 academic year. Participants were asked to fill out a 30-question survey and a nationally valid...

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School MD oral and maxillofacial surgery program: a 30-year review.

PURPOSE The first resident enrolled in the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard MD Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (MD/OMFS) program graduated from Harvard Medical School (HMS) in 1972. The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of the first 30 years of the program and to outline plans for its future. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study and the sample was comp...

Learning through longitudinal patient care-narratives from the Harvard Medical School-Cambridge Integrated Clerkship.

PURPOSE Most medical schools value and seek to create opportunities for students to learn through experiences in the longitudinal care of patients. A number of innovative programs have made longitudinal care the central experiential component of principal clinical year education.The authors sought to identify ways in which learning through the longitudinal care of patients in an innovative long...