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Third-Year Medical Student Survey of Office Preceptorships During the Pediatric Clerkship
Nicholas Jospe, MD;
Paul B. Kaplowitz, MD;
Fred A. McCurdy, MD;
Ruth P. Gottlieb, MD;
Mitch A. Harris, MD;
Russell Boyle
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:592-596.
Objective To assess medical students' interest in a career in pediatrics following
their categorical pediatric clerkship.
Design Satisfaction questionnaire to 704 third-year clerks in 5 university
medical schools following the pediatric clerkship.
Methods Analysis of the influence of the community office-based experience compared
with the inpatient experience, and examination aspects of the office preceptorship
most valued by the medical students.
Main Outcome Measure Satisfaction questionnaire addressing office-based experiences.
Results Third-year pediatric clerks report that the private office setting provides
a valuable learning experience, particularly when there is exposure to a wide
spectrum of disease and when the preceptor had time to teach. Feelings about
pediatrics as career choice rose during the clerkship from neutral to positive,
and the frequency of strongly positive feelings rose from 9.2% to 28.6%. In
deciding about pediatrics as a career, experiences with patients and residents
in the inpatient setting still seem to count more than those experiences in
the outpatient setting.
Conclusion Categorical pediatric clerkships provide learning environments that
influence students positively toward pediatrics as a career choice. This choice
is enhanced by encouraging community practitioners with students in their
office to expose them to a wide variety of issues and devote time to teaching.
From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of
Medicine, Rochester, NY (Dr Jospe); the Departments of Pediatrics (Dr Kaplowitz)
and Biostatistics (Mr Boyle), Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond; the Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska, Omaha (Dr
McCurdy); the Department of Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
Pa (Dr Gottlieb); the Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, Indianapolis
(Dr Harris).
Corresponding author and reprints: Nicholas Jospe, MD, Department
of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at Strong University of Rochester, 601
Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY 14642 (e-mail: Nicholas_Jospe{at}urmc.Rochester.edu).
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Influence of the Clinical Rotation on Intern Attitudes Toward Pediatrics
Al-Asnag and Jan
CLIN PEDIATR 2002;41:509-514.
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