background: with regard to accelerated progresses in the world of science and technology, as well as changes in the needs of the society, medical education should be a developing process. one of the main factors that can promote education from a static to a dynamic and effective state is evaluation. purpose: the purpose of the present survey is to determine the rate of success of medical studen...

OBJECTIVE Feedback is a technique used in medical education to help develop and improve clinical skills. A comprehensive review article specifically intended for the emergency medicine (EM) educator is lacking, and it is the intent of this article to provide the reader with an in-depth, up-to-date, and evidence-based review of feedback in the context of the EM clerkship. METHODS The review ar...

BACKGROUND Medical students often struggle to apply their nascent clinical skills in clerkships. While transitional clerkships can orient students to new roles and logistics, students may benefit from developing clinical skills in inpatient environments earlier in their curriculum to improve readiness for clerkships. INTERVENTION Our four- to six-session elective provides pre-clerkship studen...

The proper place for psychiatry education and experience in themedical school curriculum has evolved over time. Some institutions have limited the time spent on the required third-year psychiatry clinical clerkship to 4 weeks. Most institutions offer a 6-week clerkship, but there have been questions as to whether maintaining this level of experience is viable, given additional curriculum demand...

BACKGROUND Clerkship performance is commonly evaluated by consultant surgeons who seldom supervise medical students directly. In contrast, surgical residents and interns frequently supervise students and provide essential teaching but are not tasked with evaluating them. AIM To prospectively investigate and compare the accuracy of general surgery clerkship performance evaluations by clinical ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a new psychiatry clerkship curriculum which was designed to improve the knowledge and skills of medical students of tehran university of medical sciences (tums), iran. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted in two consecutive semesters from february 2009 to january 2010. in total, 167 medical students participated i...

AIM To assess the interest of Croatian medical students in going to foreign countries and foreign medical students' interest in coming to Croatia for one-month professional and research clerkship in the period from 1996 to 2000. METHOD Data were obtained from contracts between Croatian Medical Students' International Committee and other National Member Organizations of the International Feder...

Core self-evaluation (CSE) is a personality trait that involves a person's evaluation of his or her own worth, competence, and capability. The objective of this study was to determine whether medical students' CSEs exert beneficial effects on their adaptation to their clerkship in terms of their clinical competence and workplace well-being and whether their preclinical academic performance can ...

AIM To investigate the overall experiences of clinical pharmacy students during their clinical attachments and to understand the breadth and depth of clinical skills provided by their preceptors. METHODS A cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire containing 34 items to obtain feedback from the clerkship students from June to July 2015. Data analysis was performed to calcu...