PURPOSE This study investigated the present conditions of clinical clerkship management in Korea to make recommendations for it. METHODS The data were collected between April 15 and May 30 in 2009 using questionnaires that were sent to the clerkship directors of 41 colleges of medicine and medical graduate schools. RESULTS The elective course system was established in 78% of the institution...

BACKGROUND Medical students learn and practice various clinical skills during clinical clerkship. Patient encounters are important for developing clinical thinking, communication skills, and professional attitude. We investigated whether the amount of clinical experience during clerkship correlated with students' clinical competency and students' perception of effectiveness of their clerkship o...

Background and Objectives: Active learning, defined as a variety of teaching methods that engage the learner in self-evaluation personalized is emerging new educational standard. This study aimed to evaluate how family medicine clerkship directors are incorporating active learning into curriculum. Methods: Data were collected via Council Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance su...

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BACKGROUND The Surgery Clerkship Clinical Skills Examination (CSE) is a novel written examination developed to assess the surgical knowledge, clinical decision making, communication skills, and professionalism of medical students on the surgery clerkship. This study was undertaken to determine its validity. METHODS Data were prospectively collected from July 2011 through February 2013. Multiv...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine clerkship directors review students' patient encounter logs. Encounter data can be used to alter students' learning experiences. Our purpose was to determine if students record different types of patient encounters before and after reviewing log data with clerkship directors. METHODS Clerkship directors met with each student at clerkship midpoint, rev...

CONTEXT Anecdotal experience has suggested that third-year medical students whose first clerkship is internal medicine may have superior performance throughout the academic year. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the order of clerkships by specialty is associated with student performance. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Clerkship performance records of medical students at all 4 campuses of t...

Objectives: To determine the relationship between script concordance test scores obtained at the end of clerkship rotation in ob-gyn and global performance measures for the entire curriculum as expressed by a preclinical and clerkship score in the Dean’s Letter. The relationship also considered two other existing instruments. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on a convenience sam...

BACKGROUND The field of anesthesia continues to be poorly understood and underestimated as a career choice for graduating medical students. The anesthesia clerkship is an important educational experience in which students learn a wealth of medical knowledge. Our aim was to develop an anesthesia clerkship which exposed the students to many aspects of anesthesiology in a well structured supervise...

BACKGROUND Medical students' decreasing interest in surgical careers has raised much concern. This report is to ascertain the influence of surgical clerkship on the perceptions of medical students on prospects of a future career interest in surgery. METHODS A cross sectional study, involving final year medical students. Information concerning their interest in a surgical career, what they tho...