Interdisciplinary Workshop to Increase Collaboration Between Medical Students and Standardized Patient Instructors in Teaching Physical Diagnosis to Novices.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Traditionally, full-time faculty members have assumed major responsibility for teaching physical examination skills to first- and second-year medical students. Problems with faculty recruitment and adhering to a standardized way of teaching have challenged educators to seek alternatives to teaching the physical examination to novices. To address these problems, we created and implemented a novel curriculum that has standardized the teaching of physical examination skills to novice students by using standardized patient instructors (SPIs) and fourth-year medical students (MS-4s) working as an interdisciplinary team (known as a dyad).

Methods

This dyad training workshop occurs early in the school year, before first-year medical students begin their physical diagno

SUBMITTER: Kittisarapong T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464468 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature