BACKGROUND Preclerkship clinical-skills training has received increasing attention as a foundational preparation for clerkships. Expectations among medical students and faculty regarding the clinical skills and level of skill mastery needed for starting clerkships are unknown. Medical students, faculty teaching in the preclinical setting, and clinical clerkship faculty may have differing expect...

BACKGROUND Learning to perform pelvic and breast examinations produces anxiety for many medical students. Clerkship directors have long sought strategies to help students become comfortable with the sensitive nature of these examinations. Incorporating standardized patients, simulation and gynecologic teaching associates (GTAs) are approaches gaining widespread use. However, there is a paucity ...

background: due to unpredictability of events in psychiatry environment and replacement of routine clinical experiences with some assignments such as therapeutic communication with patients, clinical training in such environments has been associated with many problems which require continuous review and evaluation.  the purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of applying por...

OBJECTIVE To explore the fourth year medical student's knowledge regarding anaesthesia as a specialty, their attitude towards anaesthesia as a career choice and the effect of clinical clerkship on these. METHODS This survey was conducted in the Department of Anaesthesia of a university medical centre in a developing country. One hundred and fifty year four medical students rotating in anaesth...

Objective Much of resident teaching of medical students occurs in an informal manner, with bedside teaching a common focus. Hence, the ability to monitor such teaching is limited. Feedback about how students perceive the teaching is perhaps one way to more effectively monitor and influence resident teaching. Methods A “residents as teachers” program is described that includes specific resident ...

Fourth year medical students (MS4s) participate in clerkships to familiarize themselves with the field of radiation oncology and to evaluate and audition for residency programs. However, MS4s’ perceptions of their radiation oncology clerkship experiences have never been formally evaluated. This study aims to characterize the MS4 perception of the radiation oncology clerkship experience from the...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect that a 3-year primary-care course experience with family medicine, internal medicine, or pediatric preceptors would have on clerkship performance in pediatrics and internal medicine. DESIGN In 1 academic year, third-year students were divided retrospectively into 3 groups based on preceptor type in the primary care course. An analysis of variance was conducte...

In recent years medical educators have explored a number of educational techniques in an effort to improve current teaching practices. Introduction of clinical clerkships a number of years ago provided an opportunity for greater individualization of student experience during the third and fourth years. Instead of attending formal didactic lectures and demonstrations, the student was given the r...