Open AccessPatients Encounter as a Motivating Factor for Academic Performance in a Medical Neuroscience Course
Author(s) -
Amanda Kington,
Keiko Cooley,
Sandip Jain,
Lauren Fowler,
Asa C. Black,
Mohammed K. Khalil,
Melinda Ingiaimo,
Kimberly Scoles,
Chris Troup,
Lee Madeline,
Ervin Lowther,
Thomas I. Nathaniel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical science educator
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 13
ISSN - 2156-8650
DOI - 10.1007/s40670-020-00989-y
Subject(s) - summative assessment , formative assessment , session (web analytics) , medical education , debriefing , psychology , curriculum , clinical neuroscience , relevance (law) , medical school , clinical psychology , medicine , mathematics education , psychiatry , pedagogy , neurology , world wide web , computer science , political science , law
The integration of patient encounters into the first year of the medical school curriculum is known to be of vital importance in the development of critical thinking and communication skills. We investigated whether exposure of first year medical students to patient encounters during a first year medical school neuroscience course result in a high level of motivation associated with the clinical encounter, and whether this high level of motivation translates to higher academic performance as measured by their performance on formative and summative examinations.