Abstract
Re-visiting the educational environment of a metropolitan medical school in Sri Lanka with special emphasis on clinical learning
Highlights
Clinical competence is central to effective and efficient medical practice
Many researchers have explored the concept using different tools (Roff, 2005; Roff et al, 2005; Janz & Pyke, 2000), which highlights its importance in medical education
These demographics were representative of the student population of the medical school
Summary
Clinical competence is central to effective and efficient medical practice. clinical training lies at the heart of undergraduate medical education. Medical Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Corresponding author: WCD Karunaratne Medical Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, PO Box 6, Thalagolla Road, Ragama, Sri Lanka. Many researchers have explored the concept using different tools (Roff, 2005; Roff et al, 2005; Janz & Pyke, 2000), which highlights its importance in medical education. Many of these tools attempt to capture the expectations of students, effects of changing demographics of students and the impact of curricular changes and interventions. A limited number of studies have adopted it for measuring the clinical learning environment (Bunyan et al, 2011; Varma et al, 2005)
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