Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Medical students' Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale scores were compared by year, sex, and expressed specialty choice. Scores were lower for students choosing non-core specialties, and for M4 men students compared with M3 men students.
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Faculty development programs and faculty incentive systems have heightened the need to validate a connection between the quality of teaching and students' learning. This study was designed to determine the association between attending physicians' and residents' teacher ratings and their students' examination scores. ⋯ Attending faculty's clinical teaching ability has a positive and significant effect on medical students' learning.
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To review the literature on the methods used in writing case-specific checklists for studies of internal medicine physicians' performances that were assessed by standardized patients. ⋯ The development of case-specific checklists for SP examinations of physicians' performance has received little attention. To judge the validity of studies of physicians' performances that use SPs, the development processes for the checklists need to be more fully described to enable readers to evaluate the validity and reliability of the studies.
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Teachers must be good role models. In order to act the part, however, they must reflect on and articulate the attitudes and behaviors they wish to convey. The aim of this study was to describe how clinicians who teach clerks and residents represent the doctor-patient relationship and how they see themselves as role models for this relationship. ⋯ Most of the teachers had difficulty describing situations or behaviors in which they modeled the doctor-patient relationship. Being a role model requires a fairly precise idea of what one is modeling and accomplishing, and what one wants trainees to understand about the relationship. Efforts must be made to help clinical teachers to integrate the doctor-patient relationship into their clinical supervision and to provide them with tools to demonstrate this relationship effectively.