Used patient encounter records completed by 445 medical students to determine whether a family medicine clerkship offered enough experience in ear, nose, and throat (ENT) conditions. Results, which were used for curriculum development, suggest that these students were receiving sufficient opportunities for some areas of ENT practice, but not for…

Describes a collaboration to analyze and integrate elements of women's health into the core curriculum in internal medicine for a medical school's third year clerkship. Illustrates the new curriculum by describing the new module in pulmonary medicine and discusses the use of the process to integrate curricula in other interdisciplinary fields.…

Studied the literature about computer assisted instruction (CAI) in medical education by searching the Medline and ERIC databases. Medical CAI appears to be an increasingly popular topic of research and publication, but such studies tend to be published in journals with smaller circulations and are more likely to be demonstration articles than…

Describes the method and principles, including the clinical presentation model, used by the Medical Council of Canada in developing goals for the education of medical students. Outlines basic steps in developing the curriculum and examination objectives from identifying attributes through deducing learning objectives from practice-related…

Studied how teaching and learning in a community-based ambulatory setting varied by gender of students and preceptors using data contributed by 93 medical students on 5,017 patient encounters. Results show differences of potential importance in teaching and learning by gender of the student-preceptor dyad. (SLD)

Interviewed at-risk, underrepresented minority medical students, dichotomized into two groups: "no delay" (ND) and "delay/withdrawn" (DW). Found that ND students sought out physicians, typically preceptors, as mentors, while assigned advisors appeared to adversely affect the advising and mentoring process. (EV)

Examined the conceptions of learning held by second-year medical students in South Africa in relation to their academic achievement. Found that students with a good academic record expressed more transformative conceptions of learning than did their lower-achieving peers, who appeared to rely on memorization and recall. (EV)

Assessed the effectiveness of an intense, year-long experience of course work, research, and personal development for underrepresented minority students before medical school. Program participants demonstrated competency in the first year of medical school consistent with traditional students even though they had lower MCAT scores and college…

Asserts that medical education is an identity development process because it provides students with more and better ways to satisfy their needs; it allows medical students and residents to take on physicians' identities with which they further address their recurring psychosocial needs. Presents 12 conclusions concerning physicians' learning. (EV)

Introduction: Written action plans (WAPs) are instructions that enable asthmatics to manage their condition appropriately and are recommended by current asthma clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). However, general practitioners (GPs) rarely draft WAPs for their patients. An interactive, case-based workshop for asthma, combined with an objective…

Despite the fact that knowledge of the major biochemical metabolic pathways is essential to understanding the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and management of many human diseases, there is disagreement among medical educators regarding the relevance of intermediary metabolism to the practicing physician and the expectations for medical…

The second preclinical year of the medical curriculum at the Medical Faculty of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland includes nine multidisciplinary organ-system-oriented modules consisting of lectures and problem-based-learning tutorials. This study reports the experience accumulated with the evaluation of lectures during the academic years…

This descriptive study examined the conceptions and misconceptions students in health professions have regarding older people. The research was conducted in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The findings revealed that students in health professions, as a whole, demonstrated a high degree of stereotypic misconceptions and poor knowledge about aging and older…

This research describes and evaluates a workshop aimed at promoting career specialty choice and examines relationships between measured career specialty interests, work values, and personality type. Three consecutive classes of second-year medical students (N=161) participated in a two-session specialty choice workshop. All participants in the…

Objective: To compare simulator-based teaching with traditional instruction among clinical medical students. Methods: Randomized controlled trial with written pre-post testing. Third-year medical students (n = 38) received either a myocardial infarction (MI) simulation followed by a reactive airways disease (RAD) lecture, or a RAD simulation…