Developing future faculty: a program targeting internal medicine fellows' teaching skills.

Introduction: The increased demand for clinician-educators in academic medicine necessitates additional training in educational skills to prepare potential candidates for these positions. Although many teaching skills training programs for residents exist, there is a lack of reports in the literature evaluating similar programs during fellowship training.

Aim: To describe the implementation and evaluation of a unique program aimed at enhancing educational knowledge and teaching skills for subspecialty medicine fellows and chief residents.

Through students' eyes: ethical and professional issues identified by third-year medical students during clerkships.

Background: Education in ethics and professionalism should reflect the realities medical students encounter in the hospital and clinic.

Method: We performed content analyses on Case Observation and Assessments (COAs) written by third-year medical students about ethical and professional issues encountered during their internal medicine and paediatrics clinical clerkships.

Results: A cohort of 141 third-year medical students wrote 272 COAs.

Is that your final answer? Relationship of changed answers to overall performance on a computer-based medical school course examination.

Background: Whether examinees benefit from the opportunity to change answers to examination questions has been discussed widely.

Purpose: This study was undertaken to document the impact of answer changing on exam performance on a computer-based course examination in a second-year medical school course.

Methods: This study analyzed data from a 2 hour, 80-item computer delivered multiple-choice exam administered to 190 students (166 second-year medical students and 24 physician's assistant students).