CAMERON JOHNSTONE

[ 1 ] - Clinical skills temporal degradation assessment in undergraduate medical education

Introduction: Medical students’ ability to learn clinicalprocedures and competently apply these skills is an essentialcomponent of medical education. Complex skills with limitedopportunity for practice have been shown to degrade withoutcontinued refresher training. To our knowledge there is noevidence that objectively evaluates temporal degradation ofclinical skills in undergraduate medical edu...