BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many medical schools have student-run free clinics (SRFCs), yet their educational value has not been well studied. We performed a one-time cross-sectional survey to assess medical student perceptions of the educational value of an SRFC at their institution. METHODS The authors designed and validated a survey instrument including six statements on a 5-point Likert-sca...

The paper by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, which follows directly, is one of a series of lectures sponsored by the Medical Student Council. The Lectureship, instituted early in 1974, was designed to bring outstanding teachers of medicine and leaders in public health to the Yale University School of Medicine. This program was organized entirely by medical students on behalf of the student body. The...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this paper is to report on the development and implementation of a learning competency assessment survey for first-year medical students. We began by defining learning competencies in a manner that is parallel to the clinical competencies resulting in a self-assessment survey of 1,998 first-year osteopathic medical students from 25 osteopathic medical sc...

CONSIDERABLE attention is beinig given at the present time to the medical curriculum and the question as to how the medical student can to best advantage occupy his undergraduate years. In this connection it is of interest to compare our own system of medical education with that used in other countries, and I propose, therefore, to give some account of the training of the medical student in Ger...

PURPOSE We explored differences in changes in medical student empathy in the third year of medical school between volunteers at JeffHOPE, a multisite medical student-run free clinic of Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC), and nonvolunteers. METHOD Volunteerism and leadership experience at JeffHOPE were documented for medical students in the Class of 2015 (n = 272) across their medical educat...