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A Prospective Study of the Longitudinal Effects of an Embedded Specialty Curriculum on Physical Examination Skills Using an Ophthalmology Model
Academic Medicine, 10/29/09

Mottow–Lippa L et al. – Preceptors rated 100% of students competent in all eye examination modalities post initial training; 98% of students self–rated themselves competent in disc visualization. An expert auditor found documented FM funduscopies (46%) surpassed those in a prior observational study (11%). Funduscopic retraining significantly improved performance on post–Year 3 objective assessment. However, 43% of FM and 91% of internal medicine workups reflected inadequate overall eye evaluations. Subinternship notes documented muscle excursions in 95% and pupils in 71% but recorded no funduscopies. Additional training successfully reinforced skills performance, which nonetheless decayed when not habitually practiced. Neither physical diagnosis preceptor ratings nor excellent performance in the FM ophthalmology module predicted subsequent skills performance in other clerkships or on simulator testing. The present study supports a reiterative retraining model for teaching this and other specialty physical examination skills.

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