Handheld Computer Use in a Family Medicine Clerkship

Multifaceted Assessment in a Family Medicine Clerkship:

C linical competence is multifaceted and requires the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.1 Its assessment also requires an integrated and multifaceted approach.2 Assessment of clinical competence should use a variety of instruments to provide a 360° picture of each learner’s development.2 However, if one accepts that competence is not just about possessing the required knowledge, s...

Teaching geriatric assessment: use of a hybrid method in a family medicine clerkship.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We addressed a lack of geriatric content in our third-year family medicine clerkship. Adding this content posed a challenge in that students are dispersed to clinical sites across New England. Our goal was to promote student skill in functional assessment of elderly patients. METHODS We used multiple formats: a workshop, a small-group case discussion, an online video...

Creating a multi-institutional family medicine clerkship examination: lessons learned.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Multiple choice examinations assess learners' attainment of medical knowledge. Developing multiple choice examinations that discriminate among learners is difficult and time-consuming. Many institutions avoid this effort by using the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) subject examinations, which can also provide comparisons to a national norm. The family medici...

Implementation of handheld procedure tracking in a family medicine residency.

A comparison of family medicine and internal medicine experiences in a combined clerkship.

BACKGROUND Learning experiences during the medical school clinical rotation are largely shaped by patient contacts in a variety of clinical settings. For this reason, it is important to learn as much as possible about whether learning goals are being met. The patient encounter log has been used as a program evaluation tool to track students' clinical experiences. METHODS In the present study,...