Abstract:Background: The increasing opportunities for medical students to participate in international, supervised and structured electives have been shown in our recent study, which enhanced students’ professionalism, cultural competence and clinical reasoning skills in preclinical years. However, evidence is scant in achieving the specific learning objectives and improving clinical reasoning during clinical years. This study aims to demonstrate how the short-term supervised elective can improve students’ clinical rea… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.