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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Owen, Cathy
• Barnard, Amanda
• Mason, Nyree

Titel

Comparing assessment outcomes in rural longitudinal placements as a confidence boost to rural supervisors

Ist Teil von

• The Australian journal of rural health, 2013-06, Vol.21 (3), p.190-191

Ort / Verlag

Australia: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Access via Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Australian National University (ANU) Medical School offers 25% of year 3 students a Commonwealth-funded rural stream longitudinal clinical placement for 40 weeks in a rural setting, based in general practices and small rural and regional hospitals. Learning opportunities are both structured (e.g. with planned teaching sessions) and opportunistic. In this generalist setting (with limited specialist and no subspecialty teaching), students undertake an integrated learning program. Their urban peers continue in a short rotation clinical program, with 6 weeks rural General Practitioner (GP) exposure. ANU Medical School rural teachers sought reassurance about the performance of the rural stream students in terms of assessment outcomes. Other work using similar comparisons has highlighted comparable results (University of Queensland single-year remote rural settings pilot, superior results in the observed structured clinical examination (OSCE) component (McMaster University single-year non-tertiary urban and rural settings pilot program) or superior results in written and clinical examinations (Flinders University 5-year rural stream program compiled data), or superior results for large and small centre rural students (University of Western Australia). Adapted from the source document.