Rationale, aims and objectives
Clinical skills are important for medical students and doctors for their
everyday work and faculties are expected to teach and assess clinical
skills and other competencies that medical students should have at the
beginning of their career. Among competencies required for a young
doctor to begin with his or her career are several clinical skills. The
aim of our study was to evaluate in a low-stakes formative assessment
the clinical skills level improvement of finishing medical students
prior to and after their 9-week Internal medicine clerkship.