Teaching and learning in medicine
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Teaching and evaluating professionalism is part of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's training requirements for postgraduate education. Defining what constitutes professional behavior is the first step in this endeavor. Difficulty in teaching and evaluating professionalism may stem from generational differences between teachers and trainees in their definition of professional behavior. ⋯ There is little consensus for determining the severity of unprofessional behaviors among faculty and trainees at one urban university training program. However, this lack of consensus does not appear to have a generational basis. Attributing difficulties in teaching and assessing professionalism cannot be blamed on differences between the generations.
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Comparative Study
Medical subinternship: student experience on a resident uncovered hospitalist service.
Studies demonstrating the value of hospitalists to medical student education have been performed in traditional resident covered ward service settings (RCWS). ⋯ The RCWS provided a superior learning experience for subinterns. Academic medical centers should take these findings into consideration before placing medical students on an RUHS.