OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare the medical students' attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics. METHOD In a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of Iran located in ...

BACKGROUND/GOALS Supporting medical students entering their internships - the clinical clerkship and the internship "final clinical year" (Praktisches Jahr, PJ) - the seminars "Ready for Clerkship" and "Ready for PJ" were held for the first time in 2014 and continued successfully in 2015. These seminars are part of the "Magdeburg Curriculum for Healthcare Competence" (Magdeburger Curriculum zur...

The adaptation process of the learning system, hospital environment, and high risk COVID-19 infection can be stressors for anxiety in clinical clerkship. Through brain-gut–axis, interaction psychological factors, such as anxiety, trigger symptoms related to functional dyspepsia. This study aimed determine relationship between levels dyspepsia during pandemic among clerkship students. research w...

dear editor i n medical education, setting goals for clinical clerkship is the responsibility of educational groups. taking the students' opinions into account, it is possible to study the efficacy of education in terms of learning and achieving educational goals. (1) in periodontics and restorative departments of shahed and tehran university of medical sciences, it is reported that, achieving ...

we aimed to compare the medical students' attitude towards psychiatry before and after psychiatry clerkship, and to examine the association of choosing psychiatry as a future career with some personal characteristics.in a self-controlled, quasi-experimental study, all of the medical students entering the psychiatry clerkship in three major medical schools of iran located in tehran (tehran, shah...

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...

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...