OBJECTIVES The primary healthcarecentre (PHCC) is the first place that medical students experience patient contact. Usually, medical students are frustrated by a lack of proper skills training for on-campus history taking (HT), physical examination (PE) and self-directed learning (SDL) to prepare for their PHCC and inhospital patient contact. For pre-clerks, this study aims to compare the effec...

Medical schools seek ways to improve their admissions strategies, since the available methods prove to be suboptimal for selecting the best and most motivated students. In this multi-site cross-sectional questionnaire study, we examined the value of (different) selection procedures compared to a weighted lottery procedure, which includes direct admission based on top pre-university grade point ...

BACKGROUND Extended rural clerkships clearly increase the likelihood of rural practice post-graduation. What has not been determined is whether such rural interventions increase the likelihood of graduates practicing in more remote, versus inner regional, locations. METHODS The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency database was used to identify the current workplace of every gradua...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to characterize the relative strength of associations of learning environment perception with academic performance and with personal growth. METHODS In 2012-2014 second and third year students at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine completed a learning environment survey and personal growth scale. Hierarchical linear regression analysis was employed...

Lack of medical training results in physicians being unprepared to provide care to people with disabilities, which, in turn, contributes to the substantial health disparities that are evident in this population. Few medical schools or primary care residencies address the care of adults with disabilities. Competencies and guidelines to assist American physicians in caring for patients with physi...

Risky health behaviors and social factors are linked to half of all causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Physicians report lack of training as one of the barriers to providing behavior change counseling. Formal behavior change curricula are infrequent in medical schools, and where they are available, they are often isolated from clinical experiences or presented through a lim...

BACKGROUND Female medical students often prefer primary care specialties, while male students appear to be attracted to hospital specialties. Notwithstanding the steady feminisation of medicine, in many countries there are still difficulties in recruiting trainees for general practice. This seeming paradox raises the question on what specific role gender plays in a specialty choice. The authors...

Abstract In March of 2020, education across the world transitioned to virtual delivery and medical was not exempt. This study explored efficacy in a pre-clerkship immunology course during COVID-19 pandemic at University South Carolina School Medicine Greenville. Course methods educational resources provided students either 2019 or 2020 were evaluated generate picture learning environment by yea...

Students who teach less experienced students within the same educational program are known as near-peer teachers. A number of studies have shown that near-peers are effective teachers in preclinical courses such as anatomy and physical examination. We hypothesized that near-peers could also be effective teachers in a clinical clerkship. We report on a pilot study in which near-peers participate...

Objectives. The study assessed pharmacy clerkship student attitudes toward a series of cardiology case studies using either a web-based or paper-based format. Methods. Twenty-four cardiology case studies were developed that included patientspecific information followed by a series of self-assessment questions. For the paper-based cases, students were given hardcopies and later met with the inst...