Integrating medical students' goals, self-assessment and preceptor feedback in an ambulatory clerkship.

Background: Self-assessment and feedback are important elements for improving performance. However, coordinating their content remains elusive.

Purpose: The purpose is to determine whether student self-assessment and preceptor feedback correlate with course outcomes and whether preceptor feedback informs student self-assessment.

Associations between medical student log data and clerkship learning outcomes.

Background: Largely due to regulatory requirements, medical students increasingly document patient encounters in logs. Prior studies demonstrated value in achieving course objectives but not regarding objective learning outcomes.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to assess the associations between students' log data and clerkship outcomes.