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Table 6 Percentage of graduates who experienced having contact with patients in core Clinical Settings (in descending order)

From: A pilot Tuning Project-based national study on recently graduated medical students’ self-assessment of competences - the TEST study

Clinical settings

N (%)

CS2 - Care of general (internal) medical patients in medical admission units

377 (99)

CS4 - Care in the community/family practice/primary care

377 (99)

CS3 - Care of general surgical patients in surgical admission units

375 (98)

CS5 - Care for elderly patients

372 (98)

CS6 - Care for sick children

370 (97)

CS9 - Obstetric and gynaecological care

370 (97)

CS8 - Care for mentally ill patients

365 (96)

CS11 - Care of patients with specialized medical conditions (eg haematology, renal)

346 (91)

CS14 - Care of patients with specialized surgical conditions (eg cardiac surgery, urology)

331 (87)

CS1 - Care of acutely ill patients in Casualty/Accident and Emergency units

297 (78)

CS10 - Care for critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units

273 (71)

CS7 - Care for the dying, palliative care

230 (60)

CS12 - Anaesthetic care

227 (59)

CS13 - Rehabilitation medicine

179 (47)