Medical education online
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Medical education online · Jan 2017
Ethics teaching in a medical education environment: preferences for diversity of learning and assessment methods.
Ethics and professionalism are an integral part of medical school curricula; however, medical students' views on these topics have not been assessed in many countries. ⋯ Medical students viewed ethics education positively and preferred clinically attuned methods for learning.
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Medical education online · Jan 2017
Improving clerkship preparedness: a hospital medicine elective for pre-clerkship students.
Medical students often struggle to apply their nascent clinical skills in clerkships. While transitional clerkships can orient students to new roles and logistics, students may benefit from developing clinical skills in inpatient environments earlier in their curriculum to improve readiness for clerkships. ⋯ A&P: Assessment and plan; H&P: History and physical; ILP: Individual learning plan.
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Medical education online · Jan 2017
Do medical residents perform patient-centered medical home tasks? A mixed-methods study.
Increasingly, residents are being trained in Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) settings. A set of PCMH entrustable professional activities (EPAs) for residents has been defined but not evaluated in practice. ⋯ EPA: Entrustable professional activity; GIM: General Internal Medicine; NCQA: National Center for Quality Assurance; PCMH: Patient-centered medical home.
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Medical education online · Jan 2017
The association of USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK scores with residency match specialty and location.
For future physicians, residency programs offer necessary extended training in specific medical specialties. Medical schools benefit from an understanding of factors that lead their students to match into certain residency specialties. One such factor, often used during the residency application process, is scores on the USA Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE). ⋯ CK: Clinical knowledge; COMLEX: Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination; GME: Graduate medical education; NRMP: National Resident Matching Program; UME: Undergraduate medical education; USMLE: United States Medical Licensing Examination.
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Medical education online · Jan 2017
Medical students review of formative OSCE scores, checklists, and videos improves with student-faculty debriefing meetings.
Performance feedback is considered essential to clinical skills development. Formative objective structured clinical exams (F-OSCEs) often include immediate feedback by standardized patients. Students can also be provided access to performance metrics including scores, checklists, and video recordings after the F-OSCE to supplement this feedback. How often students choose to review this data and how review impacts future performance has not been documented. ⋯ Medical students review F-OSCE checklists and video recordings less than 50% of the time when not prompted. Student-faculty debriefing meetings increased student data reviews. First-year student's review of checklists on F-OSCEs was associated with increases in performance on subsequent F-OSCEs, however this outcome was not observed among second-year students.