Urban general practice and medical education: Academic outcomes from a unique urban, longitudinal integrated community-based program.
Aust Fam Physician
; 45(10): 754-757, 2016 Oct.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
In 2009, Flinders University established an urban, community-based, longitudinal integrated program providing medical students extended placements that offered continuities of patient care, clinical supervision and peer group.OBJECTIVE:
The aim of this research was to analyse academic outcomes of the new placement program.METHODS:
The results of all students undertaking Year 3 exams from 2011 to 2014 were collected and analysed. The Years 1 and 2 exam results for students in the new program were also analysed.RESULTS:
Students in the new placement program achieved significantly higher grades than those who undertook the traditional rotations program, with aver-age scores of 69.05, compared with 66.45 (P = 0.03). Analysis of average class ranking for students who undertook the new program showed a statistically significant improvement from 59th in class to 48th in class (P = 0.03).DISCUSSION:
This evaluation shows that an urban, community-based, longitudinal integrated clerkship centred in general practice provides at least academically equivalent outcomes to traditional rotations-based programs.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Estudiantes de Medicina
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Medicina Comunitaria
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Educación de Pregrado en Medicina
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Medicina General
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Aust Fam Physician
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article