Influence of a Medicine Clerkship Conference Series on Students' Acquisition of Knowledge

A study investigated the effect of participation in an intensive internal medicine conference series during a third-year medicine clerkship (n=173 students) on medical licensing examination scores and compared this with scores in surgery and pediatrics and scores of 466 students not participating in...

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Published inAcademic medicine Vol. 68; no. 12; p. 923
Main Author Magarian, Gregory J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.1993
Subjects
Classroom Techniques
Clinical Clerkship - methods
Clinical Clerkship - statistics & numerical data
Clinical Experience
Comparative Analysis
Conferences
Congresses as Topic
Educational Measurement - standards
Educational Measurement - statistics & numerical data
Educational Status
Higher Education
Instructional Effectiveness
Internal Medicine
Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Medical Education
Oregon Health Sciences University
Pediatrics
Professional Education
Retrospective Studies
Scores
Standardized Tests
Surgery
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Summary:A study investigated the effect of participation in an intensive internal medicine conference series during a third-year medicine clerkship (n=173 students) on medical licensing examination scores and compared this with scores in surgery and pediatrics and scores of 466 students not participating in the conference. Better test performance on the medicine subtest by participants was found. (Author/MSE)
ISSN:1040-2446
DOI:10.1097/00001888-199312000-00014