Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Aug 2017
[Nursing Internship Internal Medicine: Evaluation and Influences on the Attitude towards the Specialization].
Background German medical students have to perform a nursery internship of three month duration. While this internship is widely discussed, there is a lack of student evaluation data. Objectives Here, for the first time, student evaluation of a nursery internship in internal medicine (IM) is investigated. ⋯ Students who could imagine performing an IM clinical elective (52 %) gave best evaluations on all items. Conclusions A successful nursery internship can promote students' interest in the specialty of internal medicine. But, there is a strong need for improvement in structure and content, including the, to date missing, definition of learning targets, regarding this first practical experience in medical studies.