OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare the medical students' attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics. METHOD In a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of Iran located in ...

BACKGROUND/GOALS Supporting medical students entering their internships - the clinical clerkship and the internship "final clinical year" (Praktisches Jahr, PJ) - the seminars "Ready for Clerkship" and "Ready for PJ" were held for the first time in 2014 and continued successfully in 2015. These seminars are part of the "Magdeburg Curriculum for Healthcare Competence" (Magdeburger Curriculum zur...

The adaptation process of the learning system, hospital environment, and high risk COVID-19 infection can be stressors for anxiety in clinical clerkship. Through brain-gut–axis, interaction psychological factors, such as anxiety, trigger symptoms related to functional dyspepsia. This study aimed determine relationship between levels dyspepsia during pandemic among clerkship students. research w...

The Nutrition Academic Award received by Tufts University School of Medicine strengthened our first-year Nutrition and Medicine course and clearly resulted in more nutrition in third-year clerkships and residency programs. Standardized patient cases in nutrition counseling for cardiovascular disease and weight loss were developed and incorporated into the clerkships and residency programs in in...

PURPOSE Medical students are traditionally taught the physical exam as a comprehensive battery of maneuvers, yet they express uncertainty about which maneuvers are "core" and should be performed routinely on patients and which ones should be performed only when clinically indicated. The authors sought to determine whether educator consensus existed on the concept and the specifics of a core phy...

dear editor i n medical education, setting goals for clinical clerkship is the responsibility of educational groups. taking the students' opinions into account, it is possible to study the efficacy of education in terms of learning and achieving educational goals. (1) in periodontics and restorative departments of shahed and tehran university of medical sciences, it is reported that, achieving ...

we aimed to compare the medical students' attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics.in a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of iran located in tehran (tehran, shah...