Influence of clerkship sites on National Board of Medical Examiners surgery subject examination performance.

Background: As one measure of comparability of student experiences on a 2-month surgery clerkship, scores on the National Board of Medical Examiners Surgery Subject Examination (NSSE) were evaluated against a number of variables.

Methods: NSSE scores for 701 students completing the surgery clerkship over 3.5 years were analyzed.

Does the surgical clerkship meet the needs of practicing primary care physicians?

Introduction: A substantial amount of medical students enter primary care (PC) specialty careers. With the interest in reforming the curriculum to align the needs of our students to practice in their chosen specialties, an evaluation of our current surgical clerkship was done with the needs of PC practitioners in mind. We explored the needs of selected PC physicians in Wisconsin in relationship to the surgical clerkship curriculum.