High-Fidelity Simulation Enhances Learning During a Third Year Medical Student Pediatric Clerkship
This paper outlines the integration of four weekly one-hour simulations into a pediatric clerkship. Student knowledge increased 71±16% pretest to 90±9% posttest (p<0.001); self-assessed skills performance improved, and students were more likely to accept presence of family in an emergency situation (p < 0.001) after participating in the study.
In this November-December 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine ( JABFM ), we have collected multiple articles related to chronic diseases using methodologies from basic science, epidemiology, and clinical science. As Dr. Parchman[1][1] notes, the prevalence is so great