Assessing Physician Assistant Student Electronic Health Record Competency Using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.

Purpose: Evaluate didactic year physician assistant (PA) student competency in electronic health record (EHR) communication and data management.

Methods: This study used an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to measure PA students' EHR patient communication and data skills.

Results: Most students demonstrated good EHR communication skills overall, while few students moved the computer to better facilitate the visit or verified the patient's identity.

Medical Student Teaching and Recruiting: 50 Years of Balancing Two Educational Aims.

Family medicine (FM) undergraduate medical educators have had two distinct missions, to increase the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of all students while also striving to attract students to the field of family medicine. A five decade literature search was conducted gathering FM curricular innovations and the parallel trends in FM medical student interest. Student interest in FM had a rapid first-decade rise to 14%, a second 1990's surge, followed by a drop to the current plateau of 8-9%.

Medical student perceptions of a behavioural and social science curriculum.

Background In 2006, Oregon Health & Science University began implementing changes to better integrate mental health and social science into the curriculum by addressing the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) 2004 recommendation for the inclusion of six behavioural and social science (BSS) domains: health policy and economics, patient behaviour, physician-patient interaction, mind-body interactions, physician role and behaviour, and social and cultural issues.Methods We conducted three focus groups with a purposive sample of 23 fourth-year medical students who were exposed to 4 years of the new curriculum. Students were asked to reflect upon the adequacy of their BSS training specifically as it related to the six IOM domains.