Clinical Skills Passports
It has been recognized nationally that graduating medical students have few clinical skills evaluated by attending physicians. The clerkship directors at the University of Virginia School of Medicine worked together to determine the clinical skills most important for all medical students to learn competently. These skills were divided among the various clerkships and each clerkship developed a "Clinical Skills Passport" that the student is required to have filled out by the end of the rotation.
Clinical Skills Passport responsibilities:
Student
- hand in completed passport
- review the passport with their preceptor
- have the preceptor sign off on the students' clinical skills once they are performed satisfactorily
- reminded not to leave completion of the passport until the last few days of the clerkship
Preceptor
- review passport with student
- sign off on clinical skills once they are performed satisfactorily
Why is the passport so short? An effort has been made to limit duplication
of items on the passports between different clerkships. Many of the skills commonly
used in evaluation of Family Medicine patients are included on the Clinical Skills
Passports of the Medicine, Pediatric, Ob-Gyn, Psychiatry, and Surgery passports
and are not found on the Family Medicine passport.
Link to passport
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