Specific Incremental Test for Aerobic Fitness in Trail Running: IncremenTrail.

Trail running (TR) is performed in a natural environment, including various ranges of slopes where maximal oxygen consumption is a major contributor to performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the validity of tests performed in uphill conditions named the "IncremenTrail" (IncT), based on the incremental ascending speed (AS) to evaluate trail runners' cardiorespiratory parameters. IncT protocol included a constant gradient slope set at 25% during the whole test; the starting speed was 500 m·h (25% slope and 2.

Grading Practices and Distributions Across Internal Medicine Clerkships.

Theory: Clerkship evaluation and grading practices vary widely between U.S. medical schools.

Grade inflation in the internal medicine clerkship: a national survey.

Background: Grade inflation is a growing concern, but the degree to which it continues to exist in 3rd-year internal medicine (IM) clerkships is unknown.

Purpose: The authors sought to determine the degree to which grade inflation is perceived to exist in IM clerkships in North American medical schools.

Methods: A national survey of all Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine members was administered in 2009.

Factors associated with medical students' career choices regarding internal medicine.

Context: Shortfalls in the US physician workforce are anticipated as the population ages and medical students' interest in careers in internal medicine (IM) has declined (particularly general IM, the primary specialty serving older adults). The factors influencing current students' career choices regarding IM are unclear.

Objectives: To describe medical students' career decision making regarding IM and to identify modifiable factors related to this decision making.

Tapping trumps typing:how users enter data in an electronic student encounter log.

Handheld encounter logs that accurately record patient diagnoses could facilitate several educational tasks. Unfortunately, data entry on handheld computers is notoriously difficult, requiring either tapping buttons or entering text, for instance by typing. In most medical reference software, long lists of inputs adjust to match typed data, reducing the burden of data entry.

Prerequisite competencies for third-year clerkships: an interdisciplinary approach.

The Collaborative Curriculum Project (CCP) is one of three components of the Family Medicine Curriculum Resource Project (FMCRP), a federally funded effort to provide resources for medical education curricula at the beginning of the 21st century. Medical educators and staff from public and private geographically distributed medical schools and national specialty organizations in family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics developed by consensus essential clinical competencies that all students should have by the beginning of the traditional clerkship year. These competencies are behaviorally measurable and organized into the domains used for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies.

Safe prescribing: an educational intervention for medical students.

Background And Purpose: Errors in handwritten medication orders are common and can result in patient harm. We evaluated an intervention for increasing safe prescribing by medical students.

Methods: We conducted a pre-post evaluation to evaluate a brief educational intervention to increase safe prescribing by medical students.