The internal medicine subinternship: a curriculum needs assessment.
Despite broad acceptance of the internal medicine subinternship rotation by the undergraduate medical education community, only a small fraction of programs provide students with explicit learning objectives. To design a curriculum for the medical subinternship, we surveyed 3 different groups of educational stakeholders--subinternship directors, residency program directors, and housestaff--in order to identify and prioritize the competencies that should be learned during this rotation. This study provides a starting point for the development of a structured curriculum for the fourth-year subinternship rotation.
Sidlow
Robert
R
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. rsidlow@aecom.tu.edu
Mechaber
Alex J
AJ
Reddy
Shalini
S
Fagan
Mark
M
Marantz
Paul R
PR
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires