[Evaluation by undergraduate medical students of clinical clerkships in the Department of Anesthesiology].

Background: Clerkships for undergraduate clinical training were introduced in Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine in 2002.

Methods: Questionnaire surveys by 5 steps Likert measure were conducted by asking the students about the evaluation of each department or division, and overall evaluation was obtained after the clerkships. The questionnaire consisted of 12 questions on 1) orientation; 2) learning chances and provision of teaching materials; 3) feedback, learning promotion and teaching attitude; 4) coordination of human relationship between medical staff and students; and 5) overall evaluation of teacher's physician.

Results: The average score for our department was 4.30 (mean, 6th grade of all 26 departments/divisions), and the scores on provision of medical practice (4.69) and the overall teacher's physician grading (4.65) were the best among the all departments/divisions. The evaluation gradings were rather low on chances for medical and health care interviews (3.59); physical examinations (3.83); and description of medical record (3.73).

Conclusions: Reevaluation of the educational program in our department based on the results of the survey is essential for improvement of the program, and further provision of chances, especially for medical interviews, physical examinations and description of medical record is also needed for undergraduate students in the program.