Class start year | Internal Medicine clerkship start date | Curriculum details |
2015 | June 2017 | Previous—2-month isolated course in year 1, 11 contact hours, taught by clinicians. Topics covered: library resources, search strategies, and critical appraisal of therapy, diagnosis and prognosis studies. |
2016 | April 2018 | Rollout—during the transition year, students received a mix of previous and new curricular approaches comprising of a 2-month isolated course (described above) in year 1 plus three scaffolded sessions in year 2. Topics covered: library resources, search strategies and critical appraisal of diagnosis, prognosis, harm and systematic review/meta-analysis studies. |
2017 | April 2019 | Updated—Seven scaffolded sessions in years 1 and 2, 14 contact hours, taught by librarians. Topics covered include library resources, search strategies and critical appraisal of therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, harm and systematic review/meta-analysis studies. |
*Table 1 deliniates curricular details for each of the three years studied. For more details on the updated curriculum, please see online supplemental Appendix A.