Context: Every teaching activity contains a hidden curriculum, which may even eclipse the
explicit one; it is thus important to recognize messages we did not intend to teach but that …

Methods: Students were asked to list their top five take-home points at the end of their FM
clerkship at two institutions. A total of 668 written reflections were qualitatively analyzed …

The University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine (SOM) is transitioning its
third-year primary care curriculum from a year-long longitudinal primary care course to a …

Methods The intervention—POFM—consisted of five 1-hour, online discussion sessions with
12 small groups of students (N= 64), distributed across seven clinical sites, during their …

STFM recently unveiled The National Family Medicine Clerkship Curriculum website. It
outlines best practices for delivering and evaluating the core curriculum for 3rd-year family …

Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Consistency is needed in family medicine
clerkships nationwide. The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's (STFM) National …

Family medicine clerkships across the country have developed into unique experiences,
perhaps due to the breadth of knowledge and skills that family physicians possess. These …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's (STFM)
National Clerkship Curriculum (NCC) was created to standardize and improve teaching of a …

Background and Objectives: Medical educators are working to articulate the objectives and
measure the outcomes of medical education. In clinical training, faculty need methods to …

Departments of Family Medicine, while experiencing financial resource diminution, are
simultaneously called upon to expand their primary care bases and teaching programs …