A different approach to teaching pre-clerkship students physical diagnosis: standardized patient instructor-senior medical student teaching teams.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Faculty have traditionally taught the physical examination (PE) to novice medical students (pre-clerkship students.), despite recruiting and cost issues and problems standardizing their approach.

Activity

We present a model using standardized patient instructor (SPI)-fourth year medical student (MS4) teams to teach PE to pre-clerkship students, leveraging the benefits of co-teaching and peer-assisted learning.

Results

Surveys of pre-clerkship students, MS4s and SPIs indicate positive perceptions of the program, including MS4s reporting significant growth in their professional identities as educators. Pre-clerkship students' performance on the spring clinical skills exams was equivalent to or better than their peer performance pre-program implementation.

SUBMITTER: Spelde A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664546 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature