CONTEXT During the third semester of a 6-year long curriculum medical students train clinical skills in the skills laboratory (2 hours per week for 9 weeks) as well as in an early, 8-week clinical clerkship at county hospitals. OBJECTIVES to study students' expectations and attitudes towards skills training in the skills laboratory and clerkship. SUBJECTS 126 medical students in their 3rd s...

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...

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...

PURPOSE A proper patient-physician interaction (PPI) creates rapport between doctors and patients and improves medical outcomes. The importance of PPI evaluation items was evaluated in each medical student in grades 3 and 4, before and after their clinical clerkship. METHODS Six PPI evaluation guidelines (SEGUE, Kalamazoo Consensus, Calgary-Cambridge Guide, Macy guideline, 2 Korean Consortium...

BACKGROUND Medical students learn and practice various clinical skills during clinical clerkship. Patient encounters are important for developing clinical thinking, communication skills, and professional attitude. We investigated whether the amount of clinical experience during clerkship correlated with students' clinical competency and students' perception of effectiveness of their clerkship o...

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...

License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. Permissions beyond the scope of the License are administered by Dove Medical Press Limited. Information on how to request permission may be f...

BACKGROUND The Surgery Clerkship Clinical Skills Examination (CSE) is a novel written examination developed to assess the surgical knowledge, clinical decision making, communication skills, and professionalism of medical students on the surgery clerkship. This study was undertaken to determine its validity. METHODS Data were prospectively collected from July 2011 through February 2013. Multiv...

BACKGROUND Emergency medicine (EM) is a young specialty and only recently has a recommended medical student curriculum been developed. Currently, many schools do not require students to complete a mandatory clerkship in EM, and if one is required, it is typically an overview of the specialty. OBJECTIVES We developed a 10-month longitudinal elective to teach subject matter and skills in EM to ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine clerkship directors review students' patient encounter logs. Encounter data can be used to alter students' learning experiences. Our purpose was to determine if students record different types of patient encounters before and after reviewing log data with clerkship directors. METHODS Clerkship directors met with each student at clerkship midpoint, rev...