title: Effect of bedside physical diagnosis training on third-year medical students' physical exam skills.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Graduating medical students, when surveyed, noted a deficit in training in physical examination skills.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  In an attempt to remedy this deficit we implemented a pilot program for 3rd-year medical students consisting of twice-weekly bedside diagnosis rounds as part of their 8-week medicine clerkship.
  
  
  METHODS
  To assess the success of this program we reviewed students' objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) scores at the completion of the clerkship compared with prior years' students who did not have the bedside physical diagnosis training.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Students who were trained (n = 109) had an overall higher OSCE physical exam score (p < .01) than students without the training (n = 85).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Bedside physical diagnosis rounds appear to have elevated the overall OSCE score for 3rd-year medical students.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Medicine , Stony Brook University Medical Center , Stony Brook , NY , USA.
authors.forename: Lloyd
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Wei-Hsin
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Roderick A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Go
authors.forename: Feroza
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Daroowalla
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D002983:Clinical Competence; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000193:education*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D010808:Physical Examination; D010865:Pilot Projects; D056164:Teaching Rounds