Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Training medical students in smoking-cessation counseling.
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To develop, implement, and evaluate a new course curriculum designed to increase senior medical students' knowledge, psychomotor skills, interpretative abilities, and clinical utility regarding physical examination techniques. ⋯ Both the OSCE results and the students' self-assessments indicate that the pilot curriculum for the APD course improved the students' physical examination skills. The curriculum can be expanded and also exported to other institutions. Such a course may help promote and refine the use of physical diagnosis in the delivery of quality, timely, and cost-efficient health care.