title: Teaching medical students to prioritize preventive services.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of Kansas, KS 66160, USA. hchumley@kumc.edu
authors.forename: Heidi S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Chumley
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dobbie
authors.forename: Madelyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pollock
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Delzell
mesh_terms: 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