Computerized performance support systems: applications in a family practice clerkship.
This article describes a computerized performance support system, the Clerkship Learning Expert and Resource Consultant (CLERC), developed to improve the quality and consistency of learning available to medical students in a third-year family practice clerkship. CLERC is an integrated computer system with an interactive knowledge base, software applications, literature search capabilities, and clinical diagnostic software programs. Medical students enrolled in a third-year family practice clerkship use CLERC to access up-to-date clinical information and to complete clerkship assignments.
Whiteside
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Office of Medical Education, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Snell
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Bedford
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D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D012984:Software