Table 1 Characteristics of the study participants
Characteristics of the clerkship students | |
Sample | n = 83 (100% of students rotating through our teaching hospital during the study period, representing 33% of the full 2019 clerkship cohort at our medical school) |
Age | Average 23.9 (range: 21–34) |
Gender | |
Female | 59% (n = 49) |
Male | 41% (n = 34) |
Canton of origin | |
Bern (53%, n = 44), German speaking | |
Aargau (12%, n = 10), German speaking | |
Fribourg (6%, n = 5), French and German speaking | |
Other (29%, n = 24), including Italian speaking | |
Interest in specialty* | |
Before clerkship | 10% (n = 8) |
After clerkship | 17% (n = 14) |
Overall satisfaction** with clerkship | |
Average | 4.4 (range: 1–5) |
Number of different raters per student for WBAs during clerkship rotation | |
Average | 1.8 (range: 1–4) |
One rater | 39% (n = 32) |
Two raters | 42% (n = 35) |
Three raters | 17% (n = 14) |
Four raters | 2% (n = 2) |
Characteristics of the clinical raters (signing-off on WBAs) | |
Total | n = 66*** |
Gender | |
Female | 48% (n = 24) |
Male | 52% (n = 26) |
Health profession group | |
Resident | 71% (n = 46) |
Psychologist | 15% (n = 10) |
Nurse | 5% (n = 3) |
Attending | 5% (n = 3) |
Place of undergraduate medical education | |
University of Bern | 24% (n = 12) |
Other | 76% (n = 38) |