Impact of a structured review session on medical student psychiatry subject examination performance.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) subject examinations are used as a standardized metric for performance in required clerkships for third-year medical students. While several medical schools have implemented a review session to help consolidate knowledge acquired during the clerkship, the effects of such an intervention are not yet well-established. An improvement in NBME psychiatry examination scores has previously been reported with a single end-of-clerkship review session, but this was limited by a small sample size and the fact that attendance at the review session was optional, leading to likely selection bias. Methods: A 1.5-hour structured review session was conducted for medical students in the last week of each 4-week psychiatry clerkship b

SUBMITTER: Siddiqi SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4648197 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature