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.

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.