Retrospective evaluation of a medical curriculum by final-year students

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Medical students were asked in a questionnaire to evaluate the importance of all their courses and lectures with respect to their relevance to training to become a doctor. This survey was carried out at the end of the undergraduate curriculum. As the response rate was over 90% (n = 323) the data are undoubtedly representative. There was wide variation in how relevant the students graded the preclinical and clinical courses to be. Some interesting aspects were the differences found between female and male students as well as the correlation with the subject the students planned to specialize in. About 50% of the students had spent at least one month of their clinical clerkships abroad, 20% spent at least four months in the final intensive year in another county and 6% a whole academic year abroad. Retrospective surveys provide important additional information to surveys held at the end of the individual courses.

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