Breadth vs. Volume: The Outpatient Neurology Clinic Experience in Medical Education (P5.038)

Conclusions: Our findings with an expanded data set reaffirm that the volume of cases seen by medical students in the outpatient neurology clinic correlate with performance on objective measures of specialty knowledge and clinical skill. Interestingly, no clear relationship emerged correlating the breath of clinical case types seen by individual students and their performance on these same measures. The relationship between student exposure to specific types of cases and performance on specific objective evaluations may merely reflect the case types more frequently encountered on the NBME or OSCE.Disclosure: Dr. Albert has nothing to disclose. Dr. Blood has nothing to disclose. Dr. Park has nothing to disclose. Dr. Brorson has received personal compensation for activities with CVS Caremark Corporation as a legal consultant. Dr. Brorson has received research support from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lukas has received personal compensation for activities with the American Physician Institute and the National Brain Tumor Association.

Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Albert, D., Blood, A., Park, Y. S., Brorson, J., Lukas, R. Tags: Neuroepidemiology: Aging, Dementia, Cognitive, and Behavioral Neurology, General Neurology, and Research Methodology and Education Source Type: research