A standardized online clinical education and assessment tool for neurology clerkship students assigned to multiple sites.

ABSTRACT: The Drexel neurology clerkship experience can vary from large groups at a university hospital inpatient unit to smaller groups at private physician offices. Evaluations are based on the site director's subjective assessment and performance on the National Board of Medical Examiners neurology shelf examination. We are developing a standardized online clinical neurology course and quiz for the whole clerkship. We piloted the course and quiz at a single site for one academic year and compared their test scores with a control group of students at other clerkship sites who took the online quiz without viewing the course. Students at the pilot site achieved higher scores both on the neurology shelf examination and the clinical quiz and also reported higher teaching satisfaction scores than stude

SUBMITTER: Holland NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3889993 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature