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Peer reviewedKowlowitz, Vicki; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill medical school uses an objective structured clinical examination as the final exam in physical diagnosis. Since 1987, students and evaluators have shown overwhelming acceptance and support of the test, partly because it is structured for teaching as well as assessment. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Schools
Peer reviewedGruppen, Larry D.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
An innovative internal medicine clerkship provides a one-month ambulatory care component followed by two months of traditional inpatient experience. Assessment of the changes in student ability to diagnose in a variety of brief cases found knowledge gains in the shorter ambulatory care segment were double those in the longer segment. (MSE)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBlackwell, Thomas A.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
A study investigated whether the more efficiently graded extended-matching questions were equivalent to short-answer questions in evaluating medical students' (n=98) ability to elicit physical findings and generate diagnoses and treatment plans, using standardized-patient examinations. The differences found in the two question types did not favor…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Higher Education, Medical Education, Patients
Peer reviewedLyon, Harold C.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
The computer-based PlanAlyzer program was designed to teach clinical diagnosis to medical students, taking into account several characteristics common to the clinical problem solver: limited capacity for short-term memory; use of heuristic strategies; sequential information seeking; and problem conceptualization. Six years of development and…
Descriptors: Anemia, Cardiovascular System, Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer reviewedPoses, Roy M.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
A study involving 14 experienced physicians investigated the effectiveness of a computer program (providing statistical feedback to teach a clinical diagnostic rule that predicts the probability of streptococcal pharyngitis), in conjunction with traditional lecture and periodic disease-prevalence reports. Results suggest the integrated method is a…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Feedback
Peer reviewedBordage, Georges; Lemieux, Madeleine – Academic Medicine, 1991
The diagnostic discourse of medical students and physicians in thinking-aloud protocols on paper cases was analyzed for evidence of semantic structure. Results show that structural semantics can be used to distinguish various levels of mental processing among novices as well as between novices and professionals. (MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedIrby, David M. – Academic Medicine, 1992
A study of six distinguished clinical teachers in internal medicine investigated how they made rapid instructional decisions in response to each case presentation in teaching rounds. Results indicated these characteristics: substantial planning before rounds; quick, simultaneous diagnosis of patient problems and learners' level of understanding;…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Curriculum Design
