title: Types of problem students encountered by clinical teachers on clerkships.
abstract: The teachers who play the all-important role of enabling students to learn on clinical clerkships must balance the two essential skills of being a good role model and maintaining objectivity in order to identify students with a variety of problems. This study describes the findings of a survey that identifies both the type of the problems that most bother teachers and the relative frequency of those problems. Non-cognitive problems (poor interpersonal skills and non-assertive, shy students) were identified by teachers as being seen at the same relative frequency but posing greater difficulty than cognitive problems (poor integration skills, disorganization, poor fund of knowledge, etc.). A variety of the types of interventions to these problems are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98195.
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Carline
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tonesk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yergan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Siever
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Loebel
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003071:Cognition; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States