Student evaluation of a primary care clerkship: quality assurance and identification of potential for improvement

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Student assessment of the importance of key aspects of the core curriculum before the clerkship and the post-clerkship evaluation*

	Importance; rated before clerkship			Evaluation, after clerkship
	Very important	Important	Less important	Excellent	Good	Sufficient	Insufficient
Key aspect	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
recognition of frequent diseases	85	15	-	40	47	10	3
prescriptions of medicine	43	50	7	22	51	20	7
preventive medicine	46	46	8	24	41	23	12
screening	48	45	7	28	36	23	13
vaccinations	25	52	23	31	37	21	11
family medicine	25	54	21	32	40	17	11
home visits	29	49	22	45	35	13	7
communication skills	65	30	5	50	37	10	3
patient expectations	31	59	10	35	49	13	3
caring for chronic patients	41	51	8	33	46	16	5
physical examination	61	30	9	29	44	18	9
collaboration with specialists	26	54	20	17	40	28	15

ISSN: 1472-6920