A Basic Clinical Skills Course and the Department of General Medicine: The Role of the Department of General Medicine in the Clinical Clerkship.
- VernacularTitle:臨床導入実習と総合診療部 クリニカル・クラークシップにおける総合診療部の役割
- Author:
Atsushi HIRAIDE
;
Koji YAMAMOTO
;
Naruya TOMITA
;
Yumiko TOYAMA
;
Yasushige MORITA
;
Yasuto FUKUSHIMA
;
Taku IWAMI
;
Akinori KASAHARA
;
Ikuto YOSHIYA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
undergraduate education;
clinical clerkship;
department of general medicine;
clinical skills
- From:Medical Education
2003;34(1):3-7
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
Departments of general medicine in medical schools have a mission to innovate in clinical education. However, the kind of work departments should do to promote a newly developed method of clinical education is unclear. In our medical school, the department of general medicine was organized in 1997. In that year, the first task of this department was to strengthen a program of physical-diagnosis skills. Since 1999, this program has developed further and been reorganized. The basic clinical skills course has been organized to include communication, physical diagnosis, basic laboratory examination, and basic surgical skills. In this course students do not rotate through clinics in groups but learn together via a systematic program with simulators. The department of general medicine played a central role in establishing this course. This course led to the introduction of clinical clerkships at our medical school.
