BACKGROUND At Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSU SOM), the Robert R. Frank Student Run Free Clinic (SRFC) is one place preclinical students can gain clinical experience. There have been no published studies to date measuring the impact of student-run free clinic (SRFC) volunteerism on clinical skills development in preclinical medical students. METHODS Surveys were given to first ...

research is needed on whether increasing the number of bilingual residents, educating trainees on language services, or implementing medical Spanish courses as a supplement to (not a substitute for) interpreter use would improve care for LEP patients.4,5 This study has limitations. The data were based on selfreport. However, a recent study found that clinicians’ selfassessmentcorrelatedwiththei...

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...

W e read the article by Stratton and Elam (1) with interest and believe that it raises some important points in relation to the performance of medical students. The article concluded that a number of factors, including a lower undergraduate science grade point average entering medical school via an accelerated BS/MD track and being over the age of 31, were associated with first-year academic un...

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...