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Subspecialty Exposure in a Psychiatry Clerkship Does Not Improve Student Performance in the Subject Examination
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Subspecialty Exposure in a Psychiatry Clerkship Does Not Improve Student Performance in the Subject Examination

Carolina Retamero and Dilip Ramchandani
Academic psychiatry, v 37(3)
2013
PMID: 23632928

Abstract

Article Medical Education Medicine Medicine & Public Health Psychiatry
Objective The authors compared the NBME subject examination scores and subspecialty profiles of 3rd-year medical students who were assigned to psychiatry subspecialties during their clerkship with those who were not. Methods The authors collated and analyzed the shelf examination scores, the clinical grades, and the child psychiatry and emergency psychiatry shelf profiles of 361 junior medical students in two medical schools during their psychiatry clerkship. Results There were no significant differences on these parameters between the students assigned to subspecialty sites and those who were not. Conclusions This study, like some similar previous studies in other clerkships, calls attention to the lack of measurable academic benefit of fragmenting and compartmentalizing the psychiatry clerkship experience for 3rd-year medical students.

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