Anything but Shadowing! Early Clinical Reasoning in Emergency Department Improves Clinical Skills.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Transitioning from the pre-clinical environment to clerkships poses a challenge to students and educators alike. Students along with faculty developed the Clinical Reasoning Elective (CRE) to provide pre-clinical students exposure to patients in the emergency department and the opportunity to build illness scripts and practice clinical skills with longitudinal mentorship in a low-stakes environment before entering clerkships. It is a voluntary program. Each year, the CRE has received overwhelming positive feedback from students. The objective of this study is to determine if the CRE improved students' clinical skills and reported comfort in their skills.

Methods

We examined the relationships between students' self-reported participation in the CRE and their indi

SUBMITTER: Royan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785190 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature