Fig. 2

Change in students’ interest and confidence in neurology after the clerkship rotation and their correlates. Box-plot illustration of students’ confidence in managing neurological conditions and interest in pursuing neurology residency before and after neurology clerkship (a). Scatter-plot illustrations of the association between the overall value of the neurology rotation experience for medical students and the residents’ teaching effectiveness (b), students’ confidence in managing neurological conditions (c), and interest in pursuing neurology residency (d). Of note, minimal random noise added to scatter plots to illustrate number of data points better. Scales for confidence and interest are as follows; 1 = not interested/confident, 2 = undecided, 3 = somewhat confident/interested, 4 = extremely confident/interested. Scale for overall rotation value is as follows; 1 = not valuable at all, 2 = not valuable, 3 = somewhat valuable, 4 = very valuable. Scales for residents’ teaching effectiveness/residents’ impact on students’ rotation experience are respectively as follows; 1 = very ineffective/affected very negatively, 2 = ineffective/affected negatively, 3 = somewhat effective/affected positively, 4 = extremely effective/ affected very positively