Internal medicine core clerkships experience with core problem lists: results from a national survey of clerkship directors in internal medicine.
2009
Background: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) requires clinical clerkships in North American Medical Schools to define and monitor core problems and clinical conditions for medical students and adjust the clerkships to ensure that all students meet those objectives at all instructional sites. Clinical clerkships usually use medical student generated logbooks to meet these requirements. It is not clear what clinical clerkship directors are doing to meet these standards. Purpose: To determine how internal medicine clerkship directors develop problem lists, whether and how they verify student problem list entry, and how missed core problems are covered. Methods: The Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) organization conducts an annual survey of its institutional members (one member per medical school). In 2007, 75% of North American medical schools (82 of 110) responded to the survey, which included questions on core problem lists and medical student logbooks. Results: Ninety-four p...
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