As a result, we were threatened with unfilled schedules and impairments to the traditional quality of our inpatient teaching rotations.
A retrospective case series was compiled by searching the electronic records from 2010-2011 from pediatrics teaching rotations at two naturopathic teaching clinics.
A typical team on the medical clinical teaching unit (CTU) rotation consists of an attending internist, a senior medical resident, 2 3 junior residents, and 2 medical students in the final year of the MD program - clinical clerks.
This study has demonstrated the feasibility of teaching core clinical rotations in isolated rural areas.
The curriculum described in this paper is a four-week block rotation taught in the second year of residency.
This training program utilized the services of a fulltime medical doctor, from the initial planning and execution stages, to the theoretical classroom teaching, clinical hospital rotations, field trips and graduation.
Residents feel that NF does not provide adequate teaching and view the rotation as more of a "service" rotation rather than as a learning opportunity [ 9- 16].
The mandatory Cobra-alpha course, advanced MIS courses and congresses form the training structure in the Dutch residency curriculum, combined with simulator training in the teaching hospitals during clinical rotation.
The teaching programme within each rotation was otherwise the same.
Successful implementations of tablet computers in medical education programs have shown to improve clinical decision making in undergraduate medical students [ 6], increase efficiency of internal medicine residents' rounds [ 3], contributed to "overall teaching quality" of a rotation of anesthesia for orthopedics [ 7] and improved performance of medical students on national exams [ 8].
While changes in careers preferences between Year 1 and Year 5 students are possibly due, at least to some extent, to experiences in teaching and when on rotation, we cannot identify the specific influences which maintain or change early career preferences.
