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Table 3 Contrasting the proportion of students who rated the teaching of the items from the core curriculum as excellent or good (highest versus lowest ranked practices).

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

 

Top Practices

Bottom Practices

All Practices

 

Practice 44

Practice 82

Practice 43

Practice 108

 
 

9*

8*

20*

10*

695

Characteristic

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

(%)

recognition of frequent diseases

100**

100

45

50

88

prescriptions of medicine

100

100

30

40

72

preventive medicine

89

87

40

20

65

screening

100

75

70

40

68

vaccinations

100

100

65

40

71

family medicine

78

100

30

20

65

home visits

100

87

80

30

79

communication skills

100

100

75

40

87

patient expectations

88

100

80

50

84

caring for chronic patients

88

87

50

10

78

Physical examination

100

100

65

20

73

collaboration with specialists

88

100

20

10

58

average

94

93

54

31

74

Cronbach's alpha

0.86

0.83

0.92

0.94

0.91

  1. * Number of students who evaluated the practice
  2. ** Bold: above average evaluation