Educating students in a general medicine ambulatory clinic: A pilot study

Duckwall, Julia M.; Alul, Ida H.; Arnold, Louise; Willoughby, T. Lee; Sirridge, Marjorie S.; Hamburger, S

doi:10.1080/10401338909539388

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“…Student learning about patient education in both settings was low and Dent & Davis (unpublished material) found that student‐patient interactions in this category were also low. This contrasted with the findings of Duckwall et al . (1989) that 42% of consultations included patient education/counselling in general medicine OP clinics and with the concepts in Steams & Glasser's (1993) paradigm for ambulatory medicine.…”

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“…There was more clinical material available in OP clinics than on ward rounds, and the range was wider in OP clinics, which agrees with the experience of Duckwall et al . (1989).…”

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“…Their finding was confirmed here, where similar levels of student learning were reported from busy and small clinics. Duckwall et al . (1989) also showed that basic educational opportunities do not appear to vary from clinic to clinic.…”

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Comparison of student learning in the out-patient clinic and ward round

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Dent

1994

Medical Education

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In undergraduate medical education there is a trend away from ward-based teaching towards out-patient and community-based teaching. To study the potential effects of this altered emphasis on student learning, a pilot group of final-year medical students at the University of Dundee was asked to keep individual structured log-books. These contained details of patients seen during their 3-week orthopaedic attachment in both a ward and out-patient setting. A comparison of perceived learning in the two settings showed that students learned more from attending an out-patient clinic than a ward round, but did not make full use of the learning potential of either. The setting did not particularly influence the balance of learning as categorized here but only the ward round supplied experience of surgical complications. The amount of learning taking place in an out-patient clinic was influenced by student ability, measured by examination performance, but not by clinic work-load. The implications of increased use of out-patient clinics and the advantages and disadvantages of the approach employed are discussed. It is concluded that in the situation studied student learning in the outpatient setting is as good as or superior to the ward setting but should not totally replace it.

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“…There was more clinical material available in OP clinics than on ward rounds, and the range was wider in OP clinics, which agrees with the experience of Duckwall et al . (1989).…”

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confidence: 88%