CONTEXT Narrative feedback documented in performance evaluations by the teacher, i.e. the clinical supervisor, is generally accepted to be essential for workplace learning. Many studies have examined factors of influence on the usage of mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX) instruments and provision of feedback, but little is known about how these factors influence teachers' feedback-giv...

I am a fifth year medical school student from Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan, who participated in a clerkship exchange program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. I began my program with company workers, or students straight from undergraduate programs. In Tokai University, after completing all class work and some of the clerkship programs in Japan, and after...

INTRODUCTION While ICU clerkships are commonplace in undergraduate medical education, little is known about how students learn there. This study aimed to explore students' perceptions of the ICU as a learning environment, the factors influencing their learning and any perceived differences between learning in the ICU and non-ICU settings. METHODS We used interpretivist methodology, a social c...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the effect of clinical clerkship-associated achievements, such as performance of procedures at the student clinic, observation, and attitude towards a clerkship, on the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) scores of dental students graduating in restorative dentistry. MATERIALS AND METHODS The OSCEs consisted of two stations designed to a...

During the clinical phase of undergraduate medical education (UME) students are often geographically dispersed and assigned to preceptors throughout the community. Monitoring, documenting, and evaluating their clinical experiences and achievement of clinical objectives in this venue becomes a challenge, especially for large UME programs. The purpose of this manuscript is to discuss a method for...

BACKGROUND With the reformed curriculum "4C", the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne has started to systematically plan practical skills training, for which Clerkship Maturity is the first step. The key guidelines along which the curriculum was development were developed by experts. This approach has now been validated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Both students and teachers were asked to ...

Introduction: The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU) started its Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) programme in the 2006-2007 academic year. However, NAU’s BPharm curriculum was not clinically focused, and NAU lacked expertise implementing clinical pharmacy focus a Doctor (PharmD) programme. set out to transition from new PharmD curriculum. Purpose: purpose this article is describe capacity-building c...

PURPOSE Although the importance of bedside teaching is generally recognized, there is no published report on the actual experience or effects of bedside teaching in Korea. We aimed to study the effects and share the experience of bedside teaching during a clerkship in pulmonary medicine. METHODS Bedside teaching was administered to 120 students through Year 3. To evaluate the improvement in c...

BACKGROUND Providing midclerkship feedback to identify students at risk for failing is a Liaison Committee on Medical Education standard. Objective criteria for that feedback are critical. The investigators studied the value of a formative midterm (MT) test in identifying students at risk for failing a surgery clerkship. METHODS A written midclerkship test, which did not contribute to the fin...

BACKGROUND A "lectures plus clinical experiences" curriculum for surgical clerkships has significant faculty demand. A less faculty-intense blended online curriculum (BOC) could provide similar/improved academic performance compared with traditional curricula (TCs). METHODS Following an initial pilot study, students in the surgery clerkship at Johns Hopkins during 2013 to 2014 experienced a B...