In recent years medical educators have explored a number of educational techniques in an effort to improve current teaching practices. Introduction of clinical clerkships a number of years ago provided an opportunity for greater individualization of student experience during the third and fourth years. Instead of attending formal didactic lectures and demonstrations, the student was given the r...

background: the former studies and observations indicate that medical students vary considerably in their attitudes towards patients and health care personal. objectives: to study the attitude of clerkship students towards selected types of patient and selected types of health care personnel. methods: a quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted among clerkship students.the subjects recei...

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) were incorporated into the six-week Family Medicine Clerkship in 2002 to achieve two major goals: tracking students' outpatient encounters at preceptor sites and providing opportunities to use PDAs during medical visits. Each student collects information on each patient seen. Data are then retrieved and presented to students individually and as a group twice d...

BACKGROUND Emergency departments (EDs) offer a variety of learning opportunities for undergraduate medical students. It is however, difficult to evaluate whether they are receiving recommended training during their emergency medicine (EM) clerkship without identifying their clinical activities. We aimed to evaluate the clinical exposure of the final year medical students at our College during t...

MEDiCAL STUDEnT CLERKSHip in pSYCHiATRY The significance of the psychiatry clerkship in medical student education is broadly and internationally recognized (1). In the United States, all 126 allopathic medical schools oblige their students to complete a clinical clerkship in psychiatry (2). In medical schools in the United States, the length of this clerkship is 4–6 weeks (3–5). According to th...

BACKGROUND Skills lab training has become a widespread tool in medical education, and nowadays, skills labs are ubiquitous among medical faculties across the world. An increasingly prevalent didactic approach in skills lab teaching is peer-assisted learning (PAL), which has been shown to be not only effective, but can be considered to be on a par with faculty staff-led training. The aim of the ...

CONTEXT As medical schools in the United States increase their class sizes, many institutions are forced to extend their teaching affiliations outside of their immediate communities. Geographic distribution threatens the ability to provide the uniform learning opportunities that students need and accrediting bodies require. OBJECTIVE To determine if a Web-based, asynchronous learning module c...

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...