Zooming into the COVID Era Together.

The pre-clinical medical school curriculum provides students with extraordinary experiences in preparation to become physicians. However, it was not originally designed to be delivered remotely. The COVID-19 pandemic promptly threw the medical education process into unforeseen circumstances.

Using Small Case-Based Learning Groups as a Setting for Teaching Medical Students How to Provide and Receive Peer Feedback.

As future physicians, nearly all medical students will be required to provide face-to-face feedback. Moreover, receiving high quality feedback from multiple perspectives is particularly valuable during the pre-clerkship training period. To address these needs, we developed a straightforward, easy to implement exercise that affords students the opportunity to practice giving and receiving feedback with peers.

Competency milestones for medical students: Design, implementation, and analysis at one medical school.

Competency-based assessment seeks to align measures of performance directly with desired learning outcomes based upon the needs of patients and the healthcare system. Recognizing that assessment methods profoundly influence student motivation and effort, it is critical to measure all desired aspects of performance throughout an individual's medical training. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) defined domains of competency for residency; the subsequent Milestones Project seeks to describe each learner's progress toward competence within each domain.

From Theory to Practice: Utilizing Competency-based Milestones to Assess Professional Growth and Development in the Foundational Science Blocks of a Pre-Clerkship Medical School Curriculum.

Physicians-in-training require skills and attitudes beyond medical knowledge in order to mature into successful clinicians. However, because assessments in pre-clerkship curricula historically have focused almost exclusively on medical knowledge, faculty contributions to early student development often have been limited. To address this challenge and enhance student progress, we re-designed our pre-clerkship curriculum to include settings in which diverse facets of student performance could be observed and fostered.

From music to macromolecules: using rich media/podcast lecture recordings to enhance the preclinical educational experience.

Background: Little is known regarding the impact of lecture recordings on medical education.

Aim: This study was designed to assess the impact of lecture recordings on the educational experience of first-year medical students.

Methods: Students were provided with digital lecture recordings in Molecular Foundations of Medicine, an integrated preclinical science block.