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Training Fourth-Year Medical Students How to Write Admission Orders: A Pilot Project to Match Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine Competencies and Decision-Making with Milestones and Entrusted Professional Activities

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Training medical students how to write inpatient admission orders provides a promising way to bridge competencies and decision-making with milestones and entrustable professional activities. Educators can implement such learning activities during clerkships and even pre-clerkship education, against the complex context of geriatric cases to foster critical thinking and clinical reasoning.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, PO Box 800901, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA

    Huai Y. Cheng

  2. Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA

    Michelle H. Yoon

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Cheng, H.Y., Yoon, M.H. Training Fourth-Year Medical Students How to Write Admission Orders: A Pilot Project to Match Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine Competencies and Decision-Making with Milestones and Entrusted Professional Activities. Med.Sci.Educ. 26, 731–732 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-016-0314-z

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