The Impact of Shortened Clinical Clerkships on Medical Student Performance and Clerkship Assessment.

Autor: Strowd LC; Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA., Hartman N; Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA., Askew K; Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA., Vallevand A; Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA., McDonough K; Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA., Goforth J; Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA., Manthey D; Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Medical science educator [Med Sci Educ] 2021 Jun 04; Vol. 31 (4), pp. 1333-1341. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 04 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1007/s40670-021-01309-8
Abstrakt: Intro: Medical schools sometimes need to adjust the length of third-year clinical clerkships. The literature surrounding the effects of shortened clerkships on student experience and performance is mixed.
Methods: Our medical school shortened the third year by an average of 20% per clerkship to accommodate a curricular re-design in 2018-2019. We examined test scores and measures of clinical performance as well as student experience in order to understand the impact of this change.
Results: Two hundred and eight students were included in the analysis, 104 in each cohort. No statistically significant differences were noted between cohorts on NBME subject examination results. There were no significant differences on Step 2 CK scores between the traditional curriculum cohort (M = 249.4, SD = 13.7) and shortened curriculum cohort (M = 248.7, SD = 15.8). Student performance on OSCE cases was similar. Similar percentages of students rated each clerkship either "good" or "excellent" in the traditional (77%) and shortened (78%) curriculum.
Conclusion: There was no significant impact on student test scores after shortening the curriculum. Measures of student satisfaction and experience also remained stable, likely related to emphasis on retaining patient care experiences and streamlining of didactics. Curricular shortening during the third year of medical school was feasible and safe from the student perspective in our experience.
Competing Interests: Conflict of InterestThe authors declare no competing interests.
(© International Association of Medical Science Educators 2021.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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