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Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine.

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Michener, JL; Parkerson, GR; Munning, KA
Published in: J Med Educ
October 1986

The authors report on their study of the perceived acquisition of clinical skills by 151 second-year students in six required clerkships: surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, and family medicine. The students completed self-assessments of their clinical skills concerning 78 problems or procedures when taking the family medicine clerkship as their first and last rotations and when taking any of the other clerkships as their first rotation. Fifty percent of the 36 students who took the family medicine clerkship after completing all five traditional clerkships reported that they learned the management of some of the most common health problems, including osteoarthritis and hypertension, only during the family medicine clerkship. Overall, the skills of these 36 students increased from 60 percent to 89 percent of the items surveyed after taking the family medicine clerkship as their last required rotation. The principal contributions of the family medicine clerkship were in the management of common problems, performance of therapeutic procedures, and recommendation of health maintenance procedures.

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Published In

J Med Educ

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ISSN

0022-2577

Publication Date

October 1986

Volume

61

Issue

10

Start / End Page

808 / 815

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • North Carolina
  • Family Practice
  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate
  • Diagnosis
  • Clinical Competence
  • Clinical Clerkship
 

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Michener, J. L., Parkerson, G. R., & Munning, K. A. (1986). Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine. J Med Educ, 61(10), 808–815. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-198610000-00005
Michener, J. L., G. R. Parkerson, and K. A. Munning. “Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine.J Med Educ 61, no. 10 (October 1986): 808–15. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-198610000-00005.
Michener JL, Parkerson GR, Munning KA. Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine. J Med Educ. 1986 Oct;61(10):808–15.
Michener, J. L., et al. “Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine.J Med Educ, vol. 61, no. 10, Oct. 1986, pp. 808–15. Pubmed, doi:10.1097/00001888-198610000-00005.
Michener JL, Parkerson GR, Munning KA. Clinical skills acquired during a clerkship in family medicine. J Med Educ. 1986 Oct;61(10):808–815.

Published In

J Med Educ

DOI

ISSN

0022-2577

Publication Date

October 1986

Volume

61

Issue

10

Start / End Page

808 / 815

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • North Carolina
  • Family Practice
  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate
  • Diagnosis
  • Clinical Competence
  • Clinical Clerkship