Basic sciences teaching faculty are important in combatting the mental health issues facing M1/M2 medical students. These key helping students through basic by identifying those that struggling, guiding them to necessary resources, reassuring they can attain their qualifications, and encouraging engage active learning. Many of these also fulfill official mentorship roles within curriculum advis...

*Department of Health Services Administration, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; †Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico; ‡Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical ...

Introduction. Evaluation of medical students has been usually restricted to evaluation of their medical information rather than their clinical skills . Meanwhile, perfect diagnosis and treatment of a medical illness is highly related to the quality of making therapeutic alliance and physical examination. This article is a trial study to investigate the quality of medical student's skill in pe...