A Session of Multiple Choice Questions in the Orientation Process to the Adolescent Medicine Rotation

Background: Although adolescent health care training curricula for resident physicians have been developed during the past 2 decades, little is known about the orientation process to the adolescent medicine rotation. Description: Since 1996, we have incorporated a session consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions (MCQ) in the orientation process to our hospital-based adolescent medicine rotation. In this study, we evaluated residents' opinions about the MCQ format. Evaluation: An anonymous questionnaire was distributed in 2002 to 123 resident physicians who had gone through an adolescent medicine rotation between 1996 and 2002. A total of 68 physicians responded (55% response rate). Almost all respondents (99%) stated that the MCQ session was a good format to use during orientation to adolescent medicine. Most (85%) said that it previewed issues that they had to face during the rotation, 74% said that it allowed them to think about issues in adolescent medicine, and 65% said that it directed them to subj...