Internal medicine clerkship characteristics associated with enhanced student examination performance.

Purpose: To determine which internal medicine (IM) clerkship characteristics are associated with better student examination performance.

Method: The authors collected data from 17 U.S.

Teaching women's health skills: confidence, attitudes and practice patterns of academic generalist physician.

Objective: This study assesses the readiness of academic general internists to perform and precept a commonly utilized women's health examination, and procedural and management skills.

Design: Full-time faculty from divisions of general internal medicine and departments of family practice in 9 states reported their encounter frequency with, comfort precepting, and the importance they ascribe to several examination, procedural, and management skills relevant to women's health care; and their attitudes toward performing the pelvic exam and obtaining a Pap smear.

Measurements And Main Results: A total of 331 general internal medicine physicians (GIMs) and 271 family medicine physicians (FPs) completed questionnaires, with response rates of 57% and 64%, respectively.