Original Article

Student Perceptions of Their Impact on the Quality of Patient Care during Third-Year Core Clerkships

Objectives: Much of the literature on value-added student roles focuses on medical student participation in health systems science–related learning experiences. Our study sought to understand how students perceive that they improve patient care in the clinical setting. Methods: We reviewed qualitative data from the 2020–2021 academic year collected from all…

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Review Article

Best Practices for Survey Use in Medical Education: How to Design, Refine, and Administer High-Quality Surveys

Surveys are a frequently used method to collect data in medical education research. As such, it behooves medical educators involved in scholarly work to understand the best practices in the selection, development, implementation, and reporting of surveys used when conducting research and curriculum development projects. This review article prepares the…

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Original Article

Comparison of Medical Student Communication Skills Measured by Standardized Patients During an OSCE and by Faculty During an In-Hospital Encounter

Objectives: At our institution, learner communication skills during an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) are measured by standardized patients (SPs) using the New Mexico Clinical Communication Scale (NM-CCS). Faculty physicians also conduct a direct observation of a clinical encounter (DOCE) to observe students’ interactions with real hospitalized patients. The objective…

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