Author response: Education Research: Positive effect of scheduled faculty modeling on clerkship student bedside skills exposure and learning.

Abstract

We thank Dr. Sethi for his letter on our article.1 Dr. Sethi advocates for a scheduled assessment of bedside skills by a faculty member during the last week of the clerkship. Indeed, at the University of Rochester, all clerkship students participate in a faculty-observed bedside skills examination of a neurology inpatient during the final week of the clerkship. The examination is scheduled for 1 hour, during which the student is observed taking a complete history, performing a complete neurologic examination, and presenting and discussing the case with the attending physician. Feedback is provided following the examination, which counts for 15% of the clerkship final grade. We published our experience with this faculty-observed bedside skills examination in a previous issue of Neurology® .2