Voluntary attendance of small-group brainstorming tutoring courses intensify new clerk’s excellence in clinical care: a pilot study

摘要

BackgroundClerkship provides a unique way of transferring the knowledge and skills gathered during medical school’s curriculum into real-ward clinical care environment. The annual program evaluation has indicated that the training of clerks in diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills needed to be enhanced. Recently, “clinical excellence” program have been promoted in our institution to augment the excellence in clinical care of new clerks. Current study aims to evaluate whether this pilot program improve the “clinical excellence” of new clerks.