Medical teacher
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Based on personal experiences from the pediatric core clerkship of the third year of medical school, this reflexive writing piece highlights the positive impact that a preceptor had on my development as a physician-in-training. The piece draws attention to the emphasis that this preceptor places on cultivating constructive, supportive patient-doctor relationships and on pursuing a career path that is congruent with our inclinations and abilities.
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There is a paucity of instruments designed to evaluate the multiple dimensions of the workplace as an educational environment for undergraduate medical students. ⋯ The Undergraduate Clinical Education Environment Measure represents a valid, reliable and feasible multidimensional instrument for evaluation of the clinical workplace as a learning environment for undergraduate medical students. Further validation in different populations using various psychometric methods is needed.
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Social responsibility and accountability can be important core values in medical education. At the University of British Columbia, undergraduate medical students engage in prison health community service-learning opportunities in regional correctional facilities. ⋯ Our findings demonstrated that pre-clinical exposure to incarcerated individuals and prison health education provided a unique setting for medical students to develop an increased sense of social responsibility and accountability.