title: Teaching child and family assessment skills to medical students during brief outpatient clinic experience.
abstract: This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions. A clinical-educational process is described, alternating "content" and "process" roles are defined, and the use of a dual earphone communication system is explained. It is suggested that this teaching system could have a wide field of application.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child Psychiatry, Izaak Walton Killam Hospital, Halifax, N.S.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D012017:Referral and Consultation