Starting clerkships is anxiety provoking for medical students. To ease the transition from
preclerkship to clerkship curricula, schools offer classroom-based courses which may not be …

Purpose Despite curricular shifts toward a clinically oriented first two years of medical
school, students continue to struggle with the transition to clerkships. Transition courses are …

Objectives: The preclinical years of undergraduate medical education provide educational
content in a structured learning environment whereas clerkships provide clinical training in a …

Background: Medical students often struggle to apply their nascent clinical skills in
clerkships. While transitional clerkships can orient students to new roles and logistics …

Students have reported several challenging aspects of the transition to clerkships, such as
applying clinical knowledge, learning experientially, using clinical skills, adjusting to clinical …

Setting Before 2013, between the preclinical (2 years) and clinical (2 years) phases of the
curriculum, all students at VCU-SOM completed a 1-week clinical orientation. This …

Purpose To examine student perceptions and learning outcomes of three different third-year
clerkship models: a yearlong, longitudinal, integrated clerkship (LIC); six-month clerkships …

Medical learners face many challenging transitions. We prospectively explored students'
perceptions of their upcoming transition to clerkship and their future professional selves. In …

The preparation of medical students for clerkship has been criticized, in terms of both
students understanding of their new role as clinical trainees and their ability to carry out that …

The transition from preclinical classroom learning to clerkship education is a major
challenge for third-year medical students in US-based medical schools. 1 To ease this …