Study setting
6th year medical students (n=88) voluntarily participated in this study during their mandatory 9-week Internal medicine clerkship at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Slovenia. The medical school has a curricular structure of two preclinical and four clinical years. The school has a partially integrated problem-based learning (PBL). This means that students attend during the semester next to their horizontal study subjects also interdisciplinary PBL sessions. Students are introduced to clinical skills education for the first time during the Internal medicine with propaedeutics course in 3rd year. During that time, clinical skills are learned through simulation in the clinical skills laboratory. In the final year, students attend their Internal medicine clerkship in different wards at the Clinic for Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Maribor or other regional hospitals across Slovenia or abroad.