About the Instructors' Area
To assist clerkship directors in integrating CLIPP, we have developed an Instructors' Area of the CLIPP Web site (link to log in). This password-protected site includes, we hope, all of the essential supporting materials that you will need to fully integrate CLIPP into your clerkship.
CLIPP cases are all delivered to students with a chief complaint, but the student discovers the findings and final diagnosis only by working through the case. For faculty, however, it is helpful to have access to the important content within the case, and this is provided in the Instructors' Area. Case Descriptions for each case include:- A summary of the clinical scenario
- Key clinical findings in the case
- Differential diagnosis and final diagnosis
- Web links and other case highlights
- Key Teaching Points for each case, including the teaching points for the major curricular objectives and the clinical reasoning surrounding the key findings and differential diagnosis. These are particularly useful for students to have as a printout after completing a case.
- Learning objectives for each case, based on the learning objectives of the COMSEP curriculum.
- CLIPPnotes: CLIPP cases are an excellent way for students to learn, but are not meant to replace teachers. CLIPPnotes are text-based teaching materials, divided by physiologic system, that can be used to supplement the teaching in the CLIPP cases. Faculty can use CLIPPnotes during didactic sessions or group discussions; alternatively, instructors can give them to students to foster independent learning. CLIPPnotes are being developed and should be complete in 2006.
- A searchable case database that allows clerkship directors to easily find which case covers a specific COMSEP learning objective.
- Access to log data showing students' use of the CLIPP cases. Clerkship directors have access to data that includes the number of cases each student completed and how long each case was worked on. Please note that the data does not show answers given by the student to specific questions within the cases.
- Validated final examination: The CLIPP final exam question bank includes 150 NBME-style final exam questions that have been validated at 6 COMSEP medical schools. The questions were derived directly from the content within the cases and were written by COMSEP members with NBME training. The individual CLIPP exam questions perform well at discriminating high and low student performance on the CLIPP exam, and student performance on the CLIPP exam correlates moderately well to the NBME shelf exam. Many schools have found the CLIPP exam to be a feasible and valid alternative to the NBME shelf exam.
Link to tips on integrating CLIPP.
Link to log in to the Instructors' Area.