Describing Failure in a Clinical Clerkship: Implications for Identification, Assessment and Remediation for Struggling Learners.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In addition to training future members of the profession, medical schools perform the critical role of identifying students who are failing to meet minimum standards in core competencies.

Objective

To better understand reasons for failure in an internal medicine clerkship.

Design

A qualitative content analysis of letters describing reasons for students' failure.

Participants

Forty-three students (31 men) who failed the internal medicine clerkship at the University of Minnesota Medical School, 2002-2013.

Approach

We conducted a qualitative content analysis of the 43 letters describing reasons for students' failure. We coded critical deficiencies and mapped them to the Physician Competency Reference Set (PCRS) competency domains and classified t

SUBMITTER: Nixon LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5023608 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature