ArticleJournal of general and family medicine2025
Impact of Community-Based Clinical Clerkship on Medical Students' Generalism-Related Competences: A Mixed-Methods Study.
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- Acquisition of the Competency of Generalism and Its Association With Community-Based Clinical Clerkships at General/Family Medicine Institutions: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of general and family medicine · 2026Article
- Community Medicine Competencies for Postgraduate Year Residents: A Qualitative Study Based on the Six ACGME Competencies in Taiwan.Journal of general and family medicine · 2026Article
- An RQMN Integrated Teaching Model to Improve Clinical Competence in Undergraduate Internal Medicine Education: A Randomized Controlled Study.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
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Abstract
Background: Japan's 2022 Model Core Curriculum (MCC) recommends community-based clinical clerkships spanning at least three consecutive weeks to foster generalism competency, although empirical evidence supporting this guidance remains limited. Methods: We used an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. Fifth-year Chiba University medical students ( Results: Mean self-assessment scores increased significantly for all the objectives ( Conclusions: A three-week community-based clinical clerkship produced significant self-assessed gains across all 18 generalism learning objectives and generated 539 reflection-based learning units, including 16 objectives, confirming that students actively engaged with the full breadth of generalism in practice. These findings should be interpreted as indicating perceived growth rather than objective competence, given the reliance on self-assessments, and exposure opportunities varied across clerkship sites. Further multi-site studies are needed to clarify whether 3 weeks is the optimal duration.
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