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Table 2 Qualitative assessment of course submitted by student participants (n=19)

From: Preclinical curriculum of prospective case-based teaching with faculty- and student-blinded approach

 

What are your comments on the course overall?

What are your suggestions for improvement?

2015

• “Very interesting course. It is a valuable experience to be exposed to how attendings think about cases as they are presented with new information. I hope that this course will be given every year in the future.”

• “This course was very well taught and helped outline, in a meaningful way, how physicians work through cases to arrive at a diagnosis.”

• “Great interactive style.”

• “ability to apply what we learn and also see the thought process doctors go through in terms of their mental organizations”

• “More case variety”

2016

• “This course will help frame your medical education and help you think of a differential.”

• “The Primary Care seminar series was an engaging way to learn a broad set of clinical reasoning skills.”

• “This was a fantastic opportunity to get a primer on clinical reasoning for a first-year student.”

• “If you are interested in learning more about the clinical reasoning from actual patient cases this is really a great opportunity to do it!”

• “I learned how to develop a differential diagnosis, how to think like a primary care clinician, how to apply knowledge in a clinical setting.”

• “The clinical reasoning throughout this seminar helped me really understand the applications of the physical exam concepts that I learned this quarter and was a great experience to learn from clinical experts and how they reason.”

No suggestions were given.

2017

• “Wonderful course that is a fantastic introduction to differential diagnosis. This is a fun seminar that will introduce you to a variety of primary care fields.”

• “Good class to take to learn how to think through clinical cases.”

No suggestions were given.

2018

• “Great class for understand the differentials process”

• “This course is a good way to gain exposure to a practicing physician's clinical/diagnostic thought process with messy, real life cases.”

• “Learned a lot about physicians' thought processes.”

• “I highly recommend this class to all pre-clinical students. I feel like the other courses have to cover so much information that we learn about conditions, but miss the practical information of applying our knowledge to when we see a patient. I think this class was a great example of integrating and applying the information and so critical to our training.”

• “It is a good idea to take this course before you head off to clerkships.”

• “Learned about how to formulate differentials, problem lists, etc.”

• “Really enjoyed this class because got an inside look at how to problem solve patient cases”

No suggestions were given.