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| Research article summary (published 29 Nov 2002): |
A new first-year course designed and taught by a senior medical student.
Full Abstract
Senior medical students have been utilized at some institutions in limited teaching roles for first-year medical students. The authors describe a pilot program in which a motivated senior medical student completely designed and taught an original course to a group of first-year students in academic year 2000-01. The 16-hour course was offered as a selective for first-year students. This course concentrated on clinically-focused topics, evidence-based medicine, and physical examination skills. Evaluations from the students in the course, as well as from a faculty advisor, were uniformly positive. This unique course filled an existing need in the first-year curriculum, and could be permanently integrated in various settings. This novel approach of a senior medical student's developing and teaching an entire first-year course benefited both the senior and first-year students and could be implemented at other institutions using similar methods or a number of suggested variations.
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Author information
Author/s: Josephson, S Andrew (SA); Whelan, Alison J (AJ);
Affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Review
Journal: Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Acad Med), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Dec; vol 77 (issue 12 Pt 1) : pp 1207-11
Dates: Created 2002/12/13; Completed 2003/01/14; Revised 2005/11/16;
PMID: 12480623, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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