Current Research Abstracts

- faculty research

The project is to expand and enhance the quality of predoctoral primary care medical education through innovations in teaching and evaluation focusing on common clinical preventive services and physician/patient shared decision-making about such choices. Investigators propose to teach medical students enrolled in a required Family Practice Clerkship evidence-based information about common clinical preventive services and the process for achieving patients' shared decision-making/informed consent about such services. The students will be evaluated using performance-based assessments as they interact with simulated patients about 1) screening for high blood cholesterol and other lipid abnormalities, 2) screening for colorectal cancer, 3) screening for prostate cancer, and 4) screening for breast cancer. The results of the performance assessment will be incorporated into the final clerkship grade.