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Clinical Experience And Examination Performance: Is There A Correlation?, Gary L. Beck, Mihaela Teodora Matache, Carrie Riha, Katherine Kerber, Frederick A. Mccurdy
Clinical Experience And Examination Performance: Is There A Correlation?, Gary L. Beck, Mihaela Teodora Matache, Carrie Riha, Katherine Kerber, Frederick A. Mccurdy
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Context The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) requires there to be: ‘…comparable educational experiences and equivalent methods of evaluation across all alternative instructional sites within a given discipline’. It is an LCME accreditation requirement that students encounter similar numbers of patients with similar diagnoses. However, previous empirical studies have not shown a correlation between the numbers of patients seen by students and performance on multiple-choice examinations.
Objective This study examined whether student exposure to patients with specific diagnoses predicts performance on multiple-choice examination questions pertaining to those diagnoses.
Methods The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical …