The clinical skills laboratory: a cost-effective venue for teaching clinical skills to third-year medical students

Acad Med. 2002 Feb;77(2):152. doi: 10.1097/00001888-200202000-00012.

Abstract

The authors taught clinical examination and procedural skills using manikins in a clinical skills laboratory as a part of an integrated curriculum in the third-year clerk-ship. This teaching modality was effective and well received by students and faculty.

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Competence* / economics
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Education, Medical, Undergraduate* / economics
  • Humans
  • Manikins*
  • Teaching / economics
  • Teaching / methods*
  • Tennessee