Does Reducing Clerkship Lengths by 25% Affect Medical Student Performance and Perceptions?

Seetha U Monrad1, Nikki L Bibler Zaidi, Larry D Gruppen

  • 1S.U. Monrad is assistant dean of assessment, evaluation, and quality improvement and associate professor of internal medicine and learning health sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ORCID: 0000-0002-3374-2989. N.L. Bibler Zaidi is associate director of advancing scholarship, Office of Medical Student Education, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. L.D. Gruppen is professor of learning health sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ORCID: 0000-0002-2107-0126. D.J. Gelb is professor of neurology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. C. Grum is professor of internal medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. H.K. Morgan is associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and learning health sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ORCID: 0000-0002-6674-5377. M. Daniel is assistant dean of curriculum and associate professor of emergency medicine and learning health sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ORCID: 0000-0001-8961-7119. R.S. Mangrulkar is associate dean for medical student education, associate professor of internal medicine and learning health sciences, and Marguerite S. Roll Professor of Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. S.A. Santen was assistant dean of educational research and quality improvement, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and now is senior associate dean of assessment, evaluation and scholarship of learning and professor of emergency medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia; ORCID: 0000-0002-8327-8002.

Summary

Shortening medical school clerkships by 25% did not negatively impact student performance or well-being. This study suggests that accelerating clinical education may be feasible without compromising student outcomes.

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