PURPOSE Although the importance of bedside teaching is generally recognized, there is no published report on the actual experience or effects of bedside teaching in Korea. We aimed to study the effects and share the experience of bedside teaching during a clerkship in pulmonary medicine. METHODS Bedside teaching was administered to 120 students through Year 3. To evaluate the improvement in c...

Objectives: To determine the relationship between script concordance test scores obtained at the end of clerkship rotation in ob-gyn and global performance measures for the entire curriculum as expressed by a preclinical and clerkship score in the Dean’s Letter. The relationship also considered two other existing instruments. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on a convenience sam...

BACKGROUND Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) have been used to assess the clinical competence and interpersonal skills of healthcare professional students for decades. However, the relationship between preclinical (second year or M2) OSCE grades and clerkship performance had never been evaluated, until it was explored to provide information to educators at the University of Neb...

PURPOSE The clerkship director (CD) is an essential leader in the education of medical students on clinical rotations. This article represents a collaborative effort of the national clerkship organizations that comprise the Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE), a multidisciplinary group formed in 1992. ACE suggests that selection of a CD be regarded as an implied contract between the CD and th...

OBJECTIVE Emergency medicine is an evolving discipline in Canadian medical schools. Little has been published regarding student preferences for emergency medicine training during the clerkship phase of MD programs. We assessed medical students' perceptions of a newly developed emergency medicine clerkship rotation involving multiple learning modalities. The evaluation process included assessmen...

BACKGROUND A "lectures plus clinical experiences" curriculum for surgical clerkships has significant faculty demand. A less faculty-intense blended online curriculum (BOC) could provide similar/improved academic performance compared with traditional curricula (TCs). METHODS Following an initial pilot study, students in the surgery clerkship at Johns Hopkins during 2013 to 2014 experienced a B...

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...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington. PARTICIPANTS A total of 186 third-year medical students. Intervention Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n = 95) participated...