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McDermott, M. M., Curry, R. H., Stille, F. C., & Martin, G. J. (1999). Use of learning contracts in an office-based primary care clerkship. Medical Education, 33(5) 374-381.
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One hundred and seventy-seven medical students from the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School. All were in their third or fourth years of study.
Students were asked to record three specific learning goals early in their primary care clerkship. They then wrote the methods by which they would attain these goals. Each student performed an oral presentation of what they had accomplished at the end of the clerkship. Grades and a Likert scale rating system were also employed to record achievement and student perception of the process.
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Will using learning-centered learning contracts with goals help enhance initiative and skills necessary for medical students to be successful in the profession? |
Students rated the process more important than lecture classes but less important than actual office experience.
Third-year students ranked the process higher than fourth-year students.
Because of the high number of students choosing the same objectives, researchers wondered if it might be worth looking into--if these objectives represented shortfalls within the regular curriculum.
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