Teaching medical students to prioritize preventive services.
BACKGROUND
Clinicians cannot provide all recommended preventive services in a single office visit and must learn to prioritize. This skill is not overtly addressed in medical school.


METHODS
We designed a workshop to teach third-year medical students to prioritize preventive services during an office visit. In a prospective controlled trial, we compared performance on a standardized patient case.


RESULTS
Students performed well, but there was no significant difference between intervention and control groups' mean scores on the standardized patient encounter.


CONCLUSIONS
Our brief intervention failed to increase students' scores on a standardized patient case requiring preventive services prioritization.
Chumley
Heidi S
HS
Department of Family Medicine, University of Kansas, KS 66160, USA. hchumley@kumc.edu
Dobbie
Alison
A
Pollock
Madelyn
M
Delzell
John E
JE
D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006292:Health Priorities / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods