OBJECTIVE The authors performed this study to determine whether clerkship peer evaluations, initiated as part of our "team-based learning" curriculum in 2002, correlated with other student performance measures, and to determine what qualities students rate in their peer evaluations. METHOD The authors correlated peer evaluation scores with other student performance measures and performed a qu...

Objective: Contemporary healthcare requires physicians to have well developed ethical judgment skills in addition to excellent clinical skills. However, no consensus has been reached on how to best teach ethical judgment skills during medical training. Previous studies revealed inconclusive results and applied varying theoretical frameworks. To date, the students' perspectives on their developm...

OBJECTIVES One of the goals of the medical master's degree is for a student to become a gender-sensitive doctor by applying knowledge of gender differences in practice. This study aims to investigate, from the students' perspective, whether gender medicine has been taught in daily practice during clerkship. METHODS A focus group study was conducted among 29 medical students from Radboud Unive...

this study aims to investigate the quality of life (qol) of tehran university of medical sciences' (tums) medical students at different educational levels and specify the most important factors related to this quality. a sample of 242 medical students was selected randomly, given their number in three educational levels (basic sciences, physiopathology-stager and intern). the qol was measured b...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a new psychiatry clerkship curriculum which was designed to improve the knowledge and skills of medical students of tehran university of medical sciences (tums), iran. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted in two consecutive semesters from february 2009 to january 2010. in total, 167 medical students participated i...

curriculum for clerkship in endocrinology ward of hospitals affiliated with shahid beheshti medical university: a case report

background: at the present time, teaching pharmacology for medical students mainly focuses on the basic principles of pharmacology. this study was conducted to assess the current situation of pharmacology teaching and the necessity of developing clinical pharmacology from the viewpoint of medical interns and externs in tabriz university of medical sciences. methods: this descriptive cross-secti...