title: Medical student performance on an adolescent medicine examination.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the performance of third-year medical students on an adolescent medicine clinical practice examination.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants were third-year medical students (2010 [n = 145] and 2011 [n = 134]) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Student performance on adolescent contraceptive management was measured in three domains following Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies in professionalism, communication, and history-taking skills.
  
  
  RESULTS
  With regard to professionalism and communication skills, students performed very well, scoring >95% correct in both years. Students demonstrated relatively poorer performance in history-taking competency in 2010 and 2011 (66% and 67% correct, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the adolescent Objective Structured Clinical Examination case, third-year medical students demonstrated extremely high performance in communication and professionalism skills. However, performance was lower for history-taking skill in contraceptive management.
authors.affiliation: Section of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, USA. paritosh.kaul@childrenscolorado.org
authors.forename: Paritosh
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kaul
authors.forename: Gwyn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barley
authors.forename: Gretchen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guiton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000295:Adolescent Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003267:Contraception; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data