The results of this study have significant implications for developers of student-to-intern transition courses.
Two important conclusions are apparent from our evaluation of this new student-to-intern transition course in these two cohorts.
The PRINT course was most effective in improving students' perceptions of their capability in procedural skills, operational management and administrative tasks, indicating that student-to-intern transition courses should be clinically orientated, address relevant skills, use experiential learning, and focus on practical tasks.
Databases were searched between 1980 and 2010 using five search terms: nurse, intern, extern, transition and residency programs.
The transition from intern year to the second, or junior, year of internal medicine (IM) residency is accompanied by significant changes in residents' clinical and leadership responsibilities.
To maximize participants' engagement, and the course's value to them, we delivered the course during residents' transition from intern year to junior year.
The survey of awareness among intern doctors during this period of transition from medical student to physician may provide key points for pre-graduate and postgraduate education.
Cultivating the practical experience and skills of students through internships is beneficial, but a student׳s anxiety when transitioning from student to intern is often neglected.
The transition period from student to intern is a stressful time for all graduates, and it has been reported previously that graduates tend to underestimate when asked to self-assess 'how well they were prepared for hospital practice'.
January 17 2012 During the Second World War, Jewish musicians and artists interned within the walls of the Nazi transition camp at Terezín (from which they were later sent to concentration camps) continued, against all odds, to create.
The transition from finalist student to squeaky new intern was disconcerting, particularly as I was beginning my marketing and PR internship at Lasa as a complete novice to the industry.
