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Development of a Case-Based-Learning Curriculum to Engage Pre-clerkship Students in Principles of Health Equity, Quality, Safety, Teamwork, and Economics

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Care delivery concepts such as healthcare quality, safety, equity, and teamwork are crucial in the care of patients. While the importance of these concepts becomes self-evident to many clerkship students, engaging pre-clerkship students has proven challenging. We created a three-session, case-based learning (CBL) curriculum that deliberately integrated care delivery concepts and basic science content. In this format, students demonstrated increased understanding of concept relevance and faculty assessments showed improved knowledge acquisition. CBL is both feasible and acceptable to pre-clerkship students as a method to teach care delivery topics.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 675 N. St. Clair Street, Galter Pavilion Suite 18-200, Chicago, IL, USA

    Brigid M. Dolan, Mita Sanghavi Goel, Muriel Jean-Jacques & Stephen D. Persell

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Dolan, B.M., Goel, M.S., Jean-Jacques, M. et al. Development of a Case-Based-Learning Curriculum to Engage Pre-clerkship Students in Principles of Health Equity, Quality, Safety, Teamwork, and Economics. Med.Sci.Educ. 25, 493–496 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-015-0180-0

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