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Clerkship Chiefs: Introducing Students to the Role of Physician Educator
As a Clerkship Chief, senior medical students prepare for future roles as physician leaders and future medical educators. The Clerkship Chief...
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Needs assessment for enhancing pediatric clerkship readiness
BackgroundMany students report feeling inadequately prepared for their clinical experiences in pediatrics. There is striking variability on how...
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Frontline assessors’ opinions about grading committees in a medicine clerkship
BackgroundCollective decision-making by grading committees has been proposed as a strategy to improve the fairness and consistency of grading and...
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Medical student perceptions of assessments of clinical reasoning in a general surgery clerkship
BackgroundComponents factoring into general surgery clerkship grades vary by institution, and while evaluators attempt to remain unbiased when...
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Early Pre-clerkship Clinical Skills Assessments Predict Clerkship Performance
IntroductionAssessment of medical students’ clinical skills (CS) remains a challenge. Little is known about early predictors of future CS...
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A different approach to teaching pre-clerkship students physical diagnosis: standardized patient instructor-senior medical student teaching teams
BackgroundFaculty have traditionally taught the physical examination (PE) to novice medical students (pre-clerkship students.), despite recruiting...
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Using ACGME milestones as a formative assessment for the internal medicine clerkship: a consecutive two-year outcome and follow-up after graduation
BackgroundThis study evaluated the utility of using Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Milestones as a formative assessment...
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Exploring perceptions of pre-clerkship students about workplace learning in the clinical learning environment at Gulf Medical University, UAE
BackgroundMedical students view clinical workplace placements as an inspiring and motivating learning environment where active student participation...
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Reimagining a pass/fail clinical core clerkship: a US residency program director survey and meta-analysis
Pass/fail (P/F) grading has emerged as an alternative to tiered clerkship grading. Systematically evaluating existing literature and surveying...
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Integrating basic sciences into clerkship rotation utilizing Kern’s six-step model of instructional design: lessons learned
BackgroundIt is generally agreed that basic and clinical sciences should be integrated throughout the undergraduate medical education, however, there...
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Becoming a doctor: using social constructivism and situated learning to understand the clinical clerkship experiences of undergraduate medical students
BackgroundDespite the emphasis on the uniqueness and educational importance of clinical clerkships in medical education, there is a lack of deep...
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Use of an Asynchronous Discussion Platform During the Pre-clerkship Curriculum: A Multiyear Retrospective Study
IntroductionAsynchronous online message boards (OMBs) allow users to write questions or comments and share them with an online group. While the use...
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Barriers and future improvements of workplace-based learning in Korean medicine clinical clerkship: perspectives of graduates
BackgroundWorkplace-based learning (WPBL) has emerged as an essential practice in healthcare education. However, WPBL is rarely implemented in Korean...
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Students’ perception and learning experience in the first medical clerkship
BackgroundThe German clerkship (“Famulatur”) is the first phase in medical education, in which students learn from a physician’s perspective....
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Pre-clerkship procedural training in venipuncture: a prospective cohort study on skills acquisition and durability
BackgroundThe effectiveness of simulation-based training for skill acquisition is widely recognized. However, the impact of simulation-based...
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Correlation of Narrative Evaluations to Clerkship Grades Using Statistical Sentiment Analysis
IntroductionNarrative evaluations are essential components of medical student assessment. This study evaluated how well narrative clerkship...
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Teaching Future Teachers: Development of a Students-as-Teachers Advanced Elective for Post-Clerkship Medical Students
Although teaching is an essential part of Graduate Medical Education and the practice of medicine, it is not often formally taught in Undergraduate...
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Applying a validated scoring rubric to pre-clerkship medical students’ standardized patient notes: a pilot study
BackgroundWith the elimination in 2021 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills test, it is incumbent upon U.S....
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Deliberate practice of diagnostic clinical reasoning reveals low performance and improvement of diagnostic justification in pre-clerkship students
PurposeDiagnostic errors are a large burden on patient safety and improving clinical reasoning (CR) education could contribute to reducing these...
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The Need for More Learning Opportunities in Real-Time Ultrasonography for Undergraduate Medical Students: A Call for Pre-clerkship Electives
Medical education is at a point of transition in which it must reform to meet the demand of healthcare providers competent in ultrasonography. This...