Impact of Community‐Based Clinical Clerkship on Medical Students' Generalism‐Related Competences: A Mixed‐Methods Study
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.
Authors
- Hiroshi Tajima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2581-6193)
- Kazuyo Yamauchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6587-2393)
- Nobuyuki Araki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5703-3829)
- Shoichi Ito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3659-6152)
- Ikuo Shimizu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6731-7104)
- Kiyoshi Shikino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3721-3443)
- Hajime Kasai
- Naoto Ozaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8276-2647)
Institutions
- Chiba University (JP)
- Chiba University Hospital (JP)
- Dokkyo Medical University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of General and Family Medicine
- Published
- 2025-10-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.70072
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.88