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Perspectives

The “Three-Question Approach” to Medical Assessments and Plans: A Standardized Approach for Medical Trainees

Authors: Sam Schuiteman, MD, Ashwin Gupta, MD

Abstract

Transitioning from preclinical to clinical education can be a terrifying prospect for medical students and is commonly cited as a major point of anxiety in medical education. Anxiety around clerkship performance is likely to become worse in the coming years. Because the US Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 has been ungraded and medical schools increasingly enact pass/fail preclinical education, clerkship performance is becoming the only domain in which students are directly evaluated.

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