The proper place for psychiatry education and experience in themedical school curriculum has evolved over time. Some institutions have limited the time spent on the required third-year psychiatry clinical clerkship to 4 weeks. Most institutions offer a 6-week clerkship, but there have been questions as to whether maintaining this level of experience is viable, given additional curriculum demand...

Utilization of radiology as an educational resource carries great potential. Accreditation bodies, physicians and medical students deem it important for a well rounded medical curriculum. Unfortunately this resource is yet to be developed and implemented to an optimal extent. We share the experiences from the first radiology core clerkship in Pakistan at the undergraduate level. An overview of ...

While the golden era of mentoring may have been the age of apprentice ships in medicine, the birth of the clinical clerkship in the late 1800s provided the structure for the relationship between faculty and medical student. The last few decades, however, have seen a dramatic change in the availability of faculty to mentor students in clinical teaching settings despite a 600% increase in the num...

BACKGROUND In keeping with its mission to produce doctors for rural and regional Australia, the University of Wollongong, Graduate School of Medicine has established an innovative model of clinical education. This includes a 12-month integrated community-based clerkship in a regional or rural setting, offering senior students longitudinal participation in a 'community of practice' with access t...

The purpose of this project was to develop, utilize and evaluate an Internet training module for doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) students that would introduce the use of e-mail, on-line searching for primary literature and patient information and to compare the student perceptions of the module between traditional and nontraditional PharmD students. A World Wide Web site was developed which provide...