Psychological safety and accountability in longitudinal integrated clerkships: a dual institution qualitative study.

Background: Psychological safety and accountability are frameworks to describe relationships in the workplace. Psychological safety is a shared belief by members of a team that it is safe to take interpersonal risks. Accountability refers to being challenged and expected to meet expectations and goals.

Practical tips for teaching ethics and humanism to medical students.

This article presents the results of a decade's experiment in creating a longitudinal ethics and humanism curriculum for the core clinical year at UNC School of Medicine, North Carolina, United States. This curriculum applies published research on best practices in medical ethics education. Sample comments from course evaluations of the students who have completed this curriculum provide support for its success at achieving its desired learning outcomes.

Graduates' Perceptions of Learning Affordances in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships: A Dual-Institution, Mixed-Methods Study.

Purpose: The authors explored affordances that contribute to participants' successful learning in longitudinal integrated clerkships (LICs).

Method: This dual-institutional, mixed-methods study included electronic surveys and semistructured interviews of LIC graduates who completed their core clinical (third) year of medical school. These LIC graduates took part in LICs at Harvard Medical School from 2004 to 2013 and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine-Asheville campus from 2009 to 2013.

The third-year longitudinal integrated clerkship at the Asheville campus of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Consumers, health delivery planners, and public officials are calling for patient-centered, primary care-based, cost-effective health care. The Asheville campus of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine has responded to this need by developing a longitudinal integrated clerkship that trains third-year medical students to provide such care.