Patient Advocacy Assessment in the Medicine Clerkship: A Qualitative Study of Definition, Context, and Impact.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advocacy is a core value of the medical profession. However, patient advocacy (advocacy) is not uniformly assessed and there are no studies of the behaviors clinical supervisors consider when assessing advocacy.

Objective

To explore how medical students and supervisors characterize advocacy during an internal medicine clerkship, how assessment of advocacy impacted students and supervisors, and elements that support effective implementation of advocacy assessment.

Design

A constructivist qualitative paradigm was used to understand advocacy assessment from the perspectives of students and supervisors.

Participants

Medical students who completed the internal medicine clerkship at UCSF during the 2018 and 2019 academic years and supervisors who evaluated

SUBMITTER: Griffiths EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8821783 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature