An Approach to Improving Psychiatry NBME and USMLE Performance

A survey of medical students from six different medical schools (14) reported that Team-Based Learning (TBL) (15), topic-based didactics, and the combination of case discussion/topic-based lectures were associated with improved performance, whereas, somewhat surprisingly, commercial materials geared...

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Published in:Academic psychiatry 2013-05, Vol.37 (3), p.207-210
Main Authors: Spollen, John, Cluver, Jeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Active Learning
Anxiety Disorders
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Classrooms
Core curriculum
Coroners and Medical Examiners
Curriculum
Educational Experience
Educational Facilities Improvement
Educational Measurement - methods
Educational Measurement - standards
Educational Methods
Educational Quality
Educational Strategies
Electronic Learning
Examiners
Genetic Disorders
Humans
Independent study
Instructional Materials
International Education Column
Learning
Learning Management Systems
Learning Modules
Lecture Method
Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Licensure, Medical
Management Systems
Medical Education
Medical schools
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Personality Problems
Psychiatry
Psychiatry - education
Psychiatry - standards
Public speaking
Students
Teaching Methods
United States
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Summary:A survey of medical students from six different medical schools (14) reported that Team-Based Learning (TBL) (15), topic-based didactics, and the combination of case discussion/topic-based lectures were associated with improved performance, whereas, somewhat surprisingly, commercial materials geared toward step test preparation ("step-or-prep" books) were not. In our case, the added materials started with a simple outline of some areas that had been previously neglected, and, over the years, have grown to an extensive set of topic reviews, 10 multimedia online modules, 180 online review questions, and electronic "flashcards.\n In both our informal end-of-clerkship feedback session and the annual Dean's Office course evaluations, students comment favorably about how prepared they felt for the psychiatry subject examination.
ISSN:1042-9670
1545-7230
DOI:10.1176/appi.ap.11120208