Implementation of Early Clinical Exposure (ECE) in Preclinical Teaching

Abstract

Nowadays medical education for preclinical years is usually emphasizing on early exposure to clinical learning. This way of teaching can make medical students realize the importance of knowledge in the preclinical years for taking care real patients while on clinical years. This activity can lessen boring of medical students in the limited preclinical classroom and able to make correlation of preclinical and clinical. ECE can inspire medical students to pay more attention to learning in order to become physicians in the near future. ECE should have various ways, not be obligatory to medical teachers, can be blended with daily clinical service of the teachers, utilize existing hospital resources and should be modified to related curriculum in preclinical years. In this paper, the authors would like to share experience of implementing ECE in preclinical subject “Hematology and Lymphoreticular System” for medical students of Mae Fah Luang University.