Senior medical students as patient-preceptors to introduce basic history and physical examination skills to second year medical students.
Senior medical students are used as the patient and the preceptor to introduce the fundamentals of history taking and physical examination to sophomore medical students and this technique compared to the established method for teaching basic skills at the University of Iowa. Senior medical students were equally as effective as staff (residents, fellows, and faculty) in teaching the techniques of history and physical examination and statistically better than staff in providing the sophomore with a) suggestions as to how to improve their technique, and b) how their approach might affect the patient's attitude and behavior.
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010808:Physical Examination; D011231:Preceptorship; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*