Successful completion of clinical electives - Identification of significant factors of influence on self-organized learning during clinical electives with student focus groups.

ABSTRACT: Background: The Medical Licensure Act prescribes a total of four months of clinical electives in which the medical students are to work in a self-organized manner in outpatient and inpatient care. Since no specific learning objectives or learning content are given and students come into contact with different structures of outpatient and inpatient care, the learning success in a clinical elective is often rather random. In order to make self-organized learning (SOL) in clinical electives as effective as possible, we identified factors in the area of inpatient care that have an influence on SOL and thus the learning success during a clinical elective. Methods: To investigate this question a qualitative and explorative approach was chosen. In 2015, a total of 21 students from s

SUBMITTER: Rausch N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6120151 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature