Hobbs J, Tollison J W, Wilson O R, Miller M D, Spearman D R
Fam Med. 1985 Jan-Feb;17(1):11-2.
Over a period of four years, 693 third-year medical students were offered the opportunity to receive half of their required internal medicine clerkship clinical experience by rotating on a well-established family medicine inpatient service in a university hospital. This learning experience was designed and evaluated by the physician and behavioral science faculty of the department of family medicine. The family medicine inpatient experience provided the student with a greater number of individual patient encounters and a greater variety of clinical problems than an internal medicine experience. Scores on an internal medicine national board test showed no statistical difference between those students who completed a traditional internal medicine clerkship and those receiving a portion of their internal medicine experience by rotating on a family medicine inpatient service. The success of this student experience was a significant factor in the eventual acquisition of curriculum time for a third-year required family medicine clerkship.
在四年的时间里，693名三年级医学生有机会通过在一所大学医院成熟的家庭医学住院部轮转，获得所需内科实习临床经验的一半。这种学习经历由家庭医学系的内科医生和行为科学教员设计并评估。与内科实习相比，家庭医学住院部的经历让学生有更多机会接触个体患者，遇到更多种类的临床问题。内科全国委员会考试的成绩显示，完成传统内科实习的学生与通过在家庭医学住院部轮转获得部分内科实习经验的学生之间没有统计学差异。这种学生经历的成功是最终为三年级必修的家庭医学实习争取到课程时间的一个重要因素。
