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The Mid-Clerkship Review: Techniques for Community Based Preceptors

The Mid-Clerkship Review provides faculty development in delivering feedback and evaluation to medical clerks in a family medicine clerkship. The techniques taught are also appropriate for preclerkship mentoring or electives. The course is aimed at community-based family physicians who have, or will have, clerks in their practices. It is focused on the mid-clerkship evaluation session, which is the most critical interview a preceptor has with a clerk.

The course provides a series of video vignettes and readings. Participants review these materials at a web site of the Boston University Department of Family Medicine. They engage in a series of discussions of the material guided by faculty of the department. Participants learn skills in gathering data on student learners, on reviewing progress with them, and on setting appropriate educational goals for the clerks, and in handling problems. Specific topics for each of the six weeks in this course are:

  • Week 1: Welcoming the clerk, setting learning goals
  • Week 2: Planning the review; getting the right data on student performance
  • Week 3: How to give and get feedback in the mid-clerkship review
  • Week 4: Using performance evaluation data in the review
  • Week 5: Developing learning plans for the second half
  • Week 6: Consequences of good and bad feedback, summary and conclusion.

The course provides 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits through the Boston University Department of Continuing Education. It was last offered January 21 to March 4, 2002.

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July 10, 2009
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Dept of Family Medicine
Boston University Medical Campus
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Boston, MA 02118
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