Enhancing learning during a clinical clerkship

摘要: Third-year clerkships, organized around clinical experiences, may provide students with an uneven or narrowly focused fund of knowledge. This paper describes the results a comparative trial in which structured curriculum, based on learning objectives, was introduced into internal medicine clerkship at one three teaching hospitals single medical school; other two hospitals, providing similar patient care were used for comparison purposes. Students who did their hospital using curriculum scored significantly higher Medicine section National Board Part II examination when scores adjusted past academic performance. The very well received and, according to student perceptions, achieved goal expanding basic knowledge beyond that derived from reading only connection care. These support use curricular guidelines and objectives as means enhancing students’ cognitive experience during clerkships.