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The Medical Education Committee coordinates research initiatives across member schools. Some of studies that have been presented at regional and national conferences. 

Study on Clinical Rotations

There is growing competition for clinical clerkship resources as the number of LCME and COCA-accredited schools, medical school class sizes, and students trained in “off-shore” schools are rapidly increasing. An extensive literature search indicates there are qualitative methods used in the evaluation of clerkship “adequacy”, but there are no quantitative criteria to define the number of students that can be accommodated in an “adequate” clerkship experience at any single site or in any discipline. 

Michael Reichgott, MD, PhD, Chair of the Medical Education Committee, recently conducted a survey across AMSNY member schools in order to determine the number of students that can be accommodated in an "adequate" clerkship experience.

This survey was an effort to define such quantitative criteria and was based on three questions:

1. What resources are needed to assure an “adequate” clerkship experience?
2. Which of these resources actually constrains the number of students that can be assigned to a clerkship site at any one time?
3. What is the relationship (e.g. ratio or number) between a constraining resource and the number of students that can be accommodated in an “adequate” clerkship experience?

The survey results have formed the basis of an abstract "Defining the number of students that can be accommodated for clerkship experience", which was presented in a panel session on Undergraduate Medical Education, at the Sixth Annual AAMC Physician Workforce Research Conference, May 6-7, 2010.