[A trial of introduction of portfolio to elective clinical clerkship in anesthesiology].

Background: Portfolio as one of the educational techniques was introduced to elective clinical clerkship (CC) of Anesthesiology in Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine in the 2003 fiscal year.

Methods: Fourteen medical students who elected Anesthesiology CC for 3 weeks had a duty to study and feed back their CC everyday by writing portfolio, and the attending checked and fed back their portfolio every week. At the end of the CC, questionnaire surveys by 5 step Likert measure and group discussion were conducted to determine the evaluation by students of the portfolio in Anesthesiology CC.

Results: The average score of the questionnaire surveys was high(4.78). However, the scores of usefulness of the portfolio for feedback to student's attitude and to good relationship among medical staff were relatively low (4.6 and 4.4, respectively).

Conclusions: The use of a portfolio as a educational technique in elective CC seems to be useful, and further education to chief/senior medical staff for feedback to student's attitude and other kinds of educational techniques for feedback to good relationship among medical staff are needed.