BACKGROUND Objective evaluation of neurology resident clinical skills is required by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is important to insure improvement in clinical competency throughout their residency. METHODS In this study, neurology residents from all 3 years of training and neurology faculty independently completed a form on new clinic patients documenting their decisio...

BACKGROUND Many different components factor into the final grade assigned for the internal medicine clerkship. Failure of one or more of these requires consideration of remedial measures. PURPOSE To determine which assessment components are used to assign students a passing grade for the clerkship and what remediation measures are required when students do not pass a component. METHODS A na...

CONTEXT During the third semester of a 6-year long curriculum medical students train clinical skills in the skills laboratory (2 hours per week for 9 weeks) as well as in an early, 8-week clinical clerkship at county hospitals. OBJECTIVES to study students' expectations and attitudes towards skills training in the skills laboratory and clerkship. SUBJECTS 126 medical students in their 3rd s...

OBJECTIVES Exposure to family medicine (FM) can serve to promote students' interest in this field. This study aimed at identifying clerkship characteristics which decrease or increase students' interest in FM. DESIGN This cross-sectional questionnaire study analysed students' clerkship evaluations between the years 2004 and 2014. Descriptive statistics were used to compare four predefined gro...

PURPOSE The clerkship director (CD) is an essential leader in the education of medical students on clinical rotations. This article represents a collaborative effort of the national clerkship organizations that comprise the Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE), a multidisciplinary group formed in 1992. ACE suggests that selection of a CD be regarded as an implied contract between the CD and th...

PURPOSE A proper patient-physician interaction (PPI) creates rapport between doctors and patients and improves medical outcomes. The importance of PPI evaluation items was evaluated in each medical student in grades 3 and 4, before and after their clinical clerkship. METHODS Six PPI evaluation guidelines (SEGUE, Kalamazoo Consensus, Calgary-Cambridge Guide, Macy guideline, 2 Korean Consortium...

BACKGROUND Medical students learn and practice various clinical skills during clinical clerkship. Patient encounters are important for developing clinical thinking, communication skills, and professional attitude. We investigated whether the amount of clinical experience during clerkship correlated with students' clinical competency and students' perception of effectiveness of their clerkship o...

Background and Objectives: Active learning, defined as a variety of teaching methods that engage the learner in self-evaluation personalized is emerging new educational standard. This study aimed to evaluate how family medicine clerkship directors are incorporating active learning into curriculum. Methods: Data were collected via Council Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance su...

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BACKGROUND The Surgery Clerkship Clinical Skills Examination (CSE) is a novel written examination developed to assess the surgical knowledge, clinical decision making, communication skills, and professionalism of medical students on the surgery clerkship. This study was undertaken to determine its validity. METHODS Data were prospectively collected from July 2011 through February 2013. Multiv...