Teaching newborn medicine to third-year medical students: use of a checklist

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A checklist may improve student perception of teaching in a newborn clinical clerkship. The Department of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, trains medical students in newborn nursery care at 5 different sites and under the supervision of 30 different faculty members. It was thought that a small notebook-sized check-off list carried by the student would help focus student and teacher on specific skills and objectives to be learned during the newborn medicine clinical rotation. During the two years prior to introducing the checklist, 321 students took a postclerkship exam and filled out an evaluation form. Scores and ratings were compared with the 294 students who used the checklist in the first two years after its institution. No changes were found in exam scores. However, poor ratings of the clerkship experience dropped from 12% to 3% and excellent ratings increased from 13% to 24%.

Neonatology

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Trends in Clinical Education of Medical Students

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Medical colleges are successfully implementing curriculum changes designed to improve training in general practice medicine. Researchers visited 26 medical schools and surveyed others to determine how curricular changes were altering the training of medical students. Most of the colleges had received grant money to implement the changes in the general practice curriculum. Schools had affiliated with general practitioners and family medicine physicians from the community to provide clinical preceptors to students. Clinic experiences with the preceptor increased continuity-of-care experiences, providing exposure to the natural history of diseases, health, and maturation of pediatric patients.

United States, Evaluation, Family medicine, Medical colleges, Medical schools

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Teaching residents to teach: an instructional program for training pediatric residents to precept third-year medical students in the ambulatory clinic

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A short training workshop may be effective in teaching pediatric residents how to conduct clinical training with medical students. Faculty at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, conducted a half-day workshop on clinical teaching skills and studied its effect on 21 pediatric residents. Compared to teaching encounters observed before the workshop, residents who received the training were more patient, focused and probing in their encounters with third-year medical students. Residents found the workshop highly effective in developing their clinical teaching skills.

Methods, Residents (Medicine), Clinical competence, Graduate medical education

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