Clerkship on primary care and family medicine is multi-elemental very challenging in amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Some medical students have postponed their graduation because clerkship at health center cannot be carried out a pandemic situation. This article aims to describe community (CMC) module how implementation was delivered by online offline activities from 10th August 13th September 20...

Bedside teaching is a good teaching modality which can improve clinical skills and learn about humanistic patient care. Clerkship is a special stage of medical teaching in China. We aimed to seek for a proper bedside teaching modality in clerkship of neurology by this research. A total of ninety-six (96) medical students were enrolled; they attended the teaching ground round of patients with ce...

OBJECTIVE The OSCE has been demonstrated to be a reliable and valid method by which to assess students' clinical skills. An OSCE station was used to determine whether or not students who had completed a core psychiatry clerkship demonstrated skills that were superior to those who had not taken the clerkship and which areas discriminated between clerkship completers and noncompleters. METHODS ...

quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...

OBJECTIVES Exposure to family medicine (FM) can serve to promote students' interest in this field. This study aimed at identifying clerkship characteristics which decrease or increase students' interest in FM. DESIGN This cross-sectional questionnaire study analysed students' clerkship evaluations between the years 2004 and 2014. Descriptive statistics were used to compare four predefined gro...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to establish outcome measures for professionalism in medical students and to identify predictors of these outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING A US medical school. PARTICIPANTS All students entering in 1995 and graduating within 5 years. MEASURES Outcome measures included review board identification of professionalism problems and ...

Background and Objectives: Active learning, defined as a variety of teaching methods that engage the learner in self-evaluation personalized is emerging new educational standard. This study aimed to evaluate how family medicine clerkship directors are incorporating active learning into curriculum. Methods: Data were collected via Council Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance su...

BACKGROUND Many practicing physicians lack skills in physical examination. It is not known whether physical examination skills already show deficiencies after an early phase of clinical training. At the end of the internal medicine clerkship students are expected to be able to perform a general physical examination in every new patient encounter. In a previous study, the basic physical examinat...