abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

background: over 90% of pharmacy students’ work in pharmacies after graduation which needs both knowledge and skill, thus one of the most essential courses of their education is pharmacy clerkship. an important part of an educational program is the evaluation of the trainees. different studies show that conventional written exams are not successful in evaluating the skills of the students and c...

background: pharmacy education has been changed in recent years. pharmacy students need more practical and clinical skills which come from direct interaction with patients and other health care providers. to achieve this, students need more effective courses and clerkships. in this paper we describe our method to design and evaluate clinical pharmacy clerkship for the first time in ahvaz jundis...

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...

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...

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...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of didactic case-based instruction methodology to improve medical student comprehension of common neurological illnesses and neurological emergencies. SETTING Neurology department, academic university. PARTICIPANTS 415 third and fourth year medical students performing a required four week neurology clerkship. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Raw test scores o...